HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Question
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The mountains allowed for easy trade.
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The Indus River let the people trade and they could also use it to transport themselves.
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The Atlantic Ocean allowed the people to easily travel.
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The deserts protected them from invaders.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Agricultural Trade With the rivers surrounding their area, the land was fertile and they used to cultivate many crops such as Barley, Wheat, Melon seeds and oil crops like Sesame, Mustard, and Dates. These were traded by farmers with the other people.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Indus-Mesopotamian trades were mostly carried out through sea routes. There also existed “trading posts for the exchange of Harappan manufactured goods and some agricultural products”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in roughly 2500 BCE, a shift in temperatures and weather patterns over the Indus valley caused summer monsoon rains to gradually dry up, making agriculture difficult or impossible near Harappan cities, says Liviu Giosan, a geologist at WHOI and lead author on the paper that published Nov.