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Odin2005

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1. I remember reading deforestation as a cause.

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Original post)

Mon May 28, 2012, 03:19 PM

May 2012

the theory is that they used huge amounts of firewood to fuel their brick kilns and they ruined the landscape. This fatally weakened them, their states collpased and became depopulated, easy pickings from the Proto-Indo-Iranian-speaking nomads from Central Asia.

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I remember reading deforestation as a cause. Odin2005 May 2012 #1

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