Pakistan, History Culture and Environment (2nd-Edition)

Pakistan is a relatively new political entity. However, the story of Pakistan begins hundreds of thousands of years ago. 300,000 years ago the first Pakistanis were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Much later, 5000 to 2000sc, during the Bronze Age, urban civilizations flourished at Mehrgarh in Balochistan and Kot Diji in the Khairpur district. About 3000sc another great civilization thrived in the Indus Valley, including at Harappa in the Punjab and Mohenjo-daro in Sindh. Successive invasions have stamped and moulded the land of Pakistan. In 327Bc the Greek ruler Alexander the Great led his Macedonian army into northern Pakistan, successfully conquering this area.