HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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China.
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Southeast Asia.
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Sumer.
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the Indus Valley civilization.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Farmers in the Indus valley were the first to spin and weave cotton. In 1929 archaeologists recovered fragments of cotton textiles at Mohenjo-Daro, in what is now Pakistan, dating to between 3250 and 2750 BCE. Cottonseeds founds at nearby Mehrgarh have been dated to 5000 BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -The two species were domesticated independently. In the Indus Valley, the ancient known evidence for cotton fibre are threads used to string copper beads in 6000-5500 BCE in Mehrgarh.
Detailed explanation-3: -The credit for growing cotton for the first time goes to India. Greeks called it ‘Sindhun’ as it was produced in the Indus Valley.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most common fibres used in the Indus Valley appear to have been cotton, but various types of wool and possibly jute or hemp fibres were also used.
Detailed explanation-5: -False. Hint: Harappan civilization one of the oldest urban civilizations in indian subcontinent . Its also known as indus civilization.