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Gandhara Civilization flourished in Pakistan during the rule of Buddhist Kings.

• Taxila was considered as Pearl of Gandhara Civilization. 
• language of the Gandhara civilization was:  Prakrit
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• Gandhara's language was a Prakrit or "Middle Indo-Aryan" dialect, usually called Gāndhārī.
• Hindko from Peshawar, which was the capital of Gandhara, came from Shuraseni Prakrit a language spoken in Gandhara.

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The Silk Road was a network of trade routes that connected Central Asia to the Arabian Sea and India.

The Karakoram Highway is a paved road that stretches 1,260 kilometers from Kashgar to Islamabad.

It passes through the areas of Taxila, Hazara, Kohistan, Besham, Chilas, Gilgit, and Hunza.

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The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South Asia. The 3,180 km river rises in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan regions of Kashmir

Indus River Length: 3,180 km

Indus River Mouths: Arabian Sea, Rann of Kutch, Nalsarovar bird sanctuary

Indus River Tributaries: Sutlej River, Chenab River, Jhelum River, Ravi River,

Indus River Sources: Tibetan Plateau, Senge Zangbu, Gar River

Indus River 2nd source: Gar Tsangpo

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He is referred to as " The Father of History ".

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• The Sindh River is mentioned in the Rigveda, a collection of ancient Indian Vedic Sanskrit hymns.
• The Rigveda is one of the four sacred Vedic Sanskrit texts of Hinduism, and it is one of the oldest and most important texts of Hinduism.
• The Rigveda mentions the sapta-sindhavaḥ (Sanskrit: सप्तसिन्धवः), or seven rivers, along with other rivers.

Explanation

The Indus River starts in Tibet

The river Indus originates from the Mansarovar lake

The Indus River flows through India, Pakistan,

The Indus River finally falls into the Arabian Sea near Karachi.

River Indus starts making a delta near the city of Thatta

The old name of the Indus river was: Sindhu

National River of Pakistan: Indus River

6 Barrages constructed in Indus River

Indus River Length: 3,180 km

Indus River 2nd source: Gar Tsangpo

The upper Indus plain ends at Mithankot 

The upper Indus plain starts from Kalabagh

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Explanation

Farouk I was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.

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Home to the famed Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Babylon was believed by Mesopotamians to be founded by the god Marduk.

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The Sumerian Civilization, emerging around 4500 BCE in Mesopotamia.

It is regarded as the oldest known civilization.

It featuring early developments in writing, urbanization, and governance.

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Anaximander was the earliest Greek to make a map of the world.

In the 6th century BC, he created a map of the then-known world, assuming Earth as Cylinder.

Ptolemy first drew maps of the world using Latitudes and Longitudes.