WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A wall of the highest mountains in the world-the Hindu Kush, Karakorum, and Himalayan ranges-separates this region from the rest of the Asian continent. a large desert to the east helped protect the Indus Valley from invasion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trade focused on importing raw materials to be used in Harappan city workshops, including minerals from Iran and Afghanistan, lead and copper from other parts of India, jade from China, and cedar wood floated down rivers from the Himalayas and Kashmir.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus Valley is located in the region known as South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. The Indian subcontinent is a huge peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean. Towering, snow-covered mountain ranges mark the northern border of the subcontinent, including the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-4: -These mountain ranges also provided important timber, animal products, and minerals, gold, silver, tin and semiprecious stones that were traded throughout the Indus Valley.