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Several centuries after the decline of Harappan urbanism, a new phase of urban growth developed during the first millennium BCE. By around the sixth century BCE, new towns, territorial states, expanding agriculture and trade, coinage and the increasingly widespread use of iron had become major features of northern India.
Magadha's rise cannot be explained by a single factor. Fertile agricultural land, river communication, access to iron-bearing regions, elephants, the defensible setting of Rajagriha, the strategic advantages of Pataliputra and ambitious rulers such as Bimbisara and Ajatashatru all contributed to its expansion.
The Neolithic phase brought a major transformation in human life as communities increasingly cultivated crops, domesticated animals and lived in more settled habitations. Archaeological sites across the subcontinent reveal that this change occurred differently in different regions.
