Extinction
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Literacy:definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census)
Taken from:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/in.html
I don't know if civilized is the right word for it. Probably uneducated or ignorant is a better discription.
Also it's a different culture than what we are used to here. India at the moment is moving through what could be compared to the 50s in the US. Women beginning to find work out side of the home. Money becoming more available to everyone.
No, I don't think that's entirely the explanation. Irrigation produces salinization and eventual desertification.That's a large factor in the decay of the early civilizations in what is now Iraq and Syria, as Jared Diamond shows quite clearly in his book Collapse that I referred to. Irrigating the area again now would not produce crop land, the soil's been destroyed by millennia of irrigation, and it's still happening in the modern world wherever there's large scale irrigation. It's a growing problem on the great plains of North America, in Australia, India, Turkey...
