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Between 622 and 750, the Islamic Caliphate conquered the entire Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, and North Africa, reaching the Indus river to the east, the Iberian Peninsula to the west, and the Black, Caspian, and Aral seas to the north.
Source: tatoeba (6055632)
Known as the water towers of Asia, the Himalayas feed 10 major rivers such as the Yangtze, the Ganges and the Indus.
Source: tatoeba (7767432)
Mounting research blames a confluence of rising sea levels driven by global warming and the damming and dredging of key rivers and their tributaries for the rapid sinking and shrinking of Asia's seven major delta systems, from the Indus in Pakistan to the Pearl in China.
Source: tatoeba (8264178)
On the shores of the Indus, ancient times gave intelligence to all the forces of Nature, thus creating countless divinities, including Kaissa, the goddess of chess.
Source: tatoeba (10473590)
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Closest matches include bronze age culture, harappan artifact, harappan civilization, indus basin, indus civilization.
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