Discuss and compare the role of climate change in the decline of the Harappan and Andean civilizations between 1500 and 1000 B.C.E.?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: Gradually drying climates, evidence of earthquakes caused shifting riverbeds, diseases emerged and there was an overuse of environmental resources that caused the gradual collapse of food distribution system and decline of the Harappan civilization. Similar vulnerabilities to ecological factors in the Andean civilizations such as climate change from El Niño affect food supplies and population levels were dependent on sufficient food supplies. Overexploitation of soil led to famines in trying to keep up with population levels.
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