INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The entry port for trade between the Indus trading centres and Mesopotamia was Bahrain. It was called ‘Dilmun’ in the Mesopotamian texts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trade between Indus Valley and Mesopotamia appears rather skewed in IVC’s favour. IVC exported Gold jewelery, Ivory seals & boxes, Timber, Cotton textiles, Copper & bronze fish-hooks, Carnelian & precious stone beads, Live chicken, Shell & bone inlays, and even Water buffaloes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Other trade goods included terracotta pots, gold, silver, metals, beads, flints for making tools, seashells, pearls, and colored gem stones, such as lapis lazuli and turquoise. There was an extensive maritime trade network operating between the Harappan and Mesopotamian civilizations.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the ways historians know about the maritime trade network operating between the Harappan and Mesopotamian civilizations is the discovery of Harappan seals and jewelry at archaeological sites in regions of Mesopotamia, which includes most of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, and parts of Syria.

Detailed explanation-5: -Note-The Indus Valley Civilisation was an ancient Civilisation which existed from 3200 BCE to 1300 BCE. It was one of the first urban civilisations of the world and a contemporary of the Mesopotamian Civilisation. The Indus Valley Civilisation also traded with Mesopotamia.