GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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To which civilization, Port town of Lothal (Gujarat) can be traced back, marking the beginning of an ancient tradition of trade by sea?
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Harappan civilisation
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sangam
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Aryan
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The site provides evidence of Harappa culture between 2400 BCE to 1600 BCE. The excavated site of Lothal is the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lothal is famous for the discovery of several ruins of Indus Valley Civilization. Excavation was carried out at Lothal between 1955 and 1962.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lothal’s dock-the world’s earliest known-connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea.
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