Explain Why People Settled In The Indus Valley

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People have settled in the Indus Valley to live, for thousands of years. The Indus Valley is located between modern day Pakistan and India. It has fertile land which is good for agriculture, it is surrounded by mountains and it has the Indus river running through the middle of it. This area has all the materials needed for a settlement to survive; which is why people have settled there over time.The people of the Indus Valley lived in the area between Pakistan and India about 5000 years ago.

The society developed in this particular location because it contained many of the materials needed for people to survive. The land is fertile which means it is good for growing crops, the area is a floodplain for making fires.There were also forests which

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