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This POD arises from a thought I had in this thread.

WI the Indus civilisation hadn't suffered the hypothetical ecological catastrophes which may have led to it being overrun by the Aryans.

The Aryans are stopped at the Hindu Kush and the Indus civilisation (which, for the sake of conciseness, I shall refer to as "Meluha*") was allowed to spread, setting up a belt of hydraulic city-states and kingdoms across the Indo-Gangetic plains and in the Deccan.

These states exist in a continual flux, much like the early dynasties of China with one state ruling the Empire for hundreds of years before falling and being replaced by another paramount state. However, Meluha culture continues to spread out across the Indian subcontinent, drawing a larger and larger area into this dynastic cycle.

So...what might happen with an Indian subcontinent which had an ethos of cultural and to some extent political unity? What will the world look like with not one, but two massive, ancient and unified Asian civilisations?

*Meluha is a state referred to in Sumerian sources which may have been the Indus Valley Civilisation.
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