The history of Asian empires warns us: climate disasters wait for no one. Angkor, the most populous city in the world ,was laid low by the monsoon. The Harappans, the most advanced Bronze Age civilisation, left their cities due to drying weather. And climate disasters played into the fall of both North Indian and South Indian empires. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how.
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