WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -With agriculture contributing heavily towards their economy, people of the Indus Valley were able to trade their surpluses of food between their own cities for items like jewellery, pottery, materials and metals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Apart from meat, the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation grew and ate a variety of cereals and pulses. There is archaeological evidence for cultivation of pea (matar), chickpea (chana), pigeon pea (tur/arhar), horse gram (chana dal) and green gram (moong).

Detailed explanation-3: -Scholars believe Indus Valley people used granaries to store their surplus crops.

Detailed explanation-4: -Different types of cereals e.g, wheat and barley in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan and millets and jowar in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Kachchh were grown in congenial regional environments of Harappan Civilization. The evidence of granaries from Mohenjodaro, Harappa and Lothal indicate surplus food produce.