Amusing Introduction to the Indus River Valley
In a short clip from the web video series, Crash Course in World History, John Green gives a condensed overview of the ancient civilization of the Indus River Valley. The accessibility of freshwater made agriculture incredibly fruitful but also gave neighboring nations reason to invade and conquer.
Harappa (one of its largest cities)
Leading international scholar offer various forms of knowledge of the ancient civilizations of the Indus River and its surrounding banks, deltas, and valleys. The homepage offers several icons to thumb through and choose differing paths of intellectual discovery.
The Indus River dolphin is one of the very few freshwater dolphins on Earth.
The Indus river in modern day Pakistan
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