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TIL Around 2200 BC, a drought lasting about 100 years started that has been hypothesized to have caused the collapse of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus Valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, Liangzhu Civilization in China, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.

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