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What were the semi-arid lands that were made fertile by building a network of canals in Punjab known as?

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Canal territories
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Punjab canals
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Colonial canals
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Canal colonies
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Solution

The correct option is D Canal colonies
Huge areas of the Indus Valley plains were made fertile by building a network of canals in those regions. Those regions were occupied by the colonists. Those areas form the richest agricultural lands of present-day Pakistan.

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