By about 1700 B.C.E., the residents of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro began to abandon their cities because

Afrequent epidemics made city living impossible.
Bdeforestation of the Indus River valley brought about ecological degradation.
Cthe horse-riding Aryans began to invade the cities.
Dthe Indus River dried up.
EAll these answers are correct.