India is one of those countries which have attained an early civilization. From a remote antiquity, the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges became the seat of a culture distinguished by its originality, and many sided development, Alike in the domain of intellectual advancement as also in the arts of material progress, this civilization proved its excellence at an [...]
The economy of the Indus civilization was based on animal husbandry, particularly of zebu cattle, and on arable agriculture, growing cereals, pulses, and other plants. These were supplemented by the exploitation of wild resources, such as fish. Pastoralism and agriculture differed in their relative importance in each of the great diversity of environments that composed the Indus realms. In the [...]
Sumerian and Akkadian traders were active in the Gulf, there is no evidence that they ever reached farther south than the western coast of Magan. Harappan material, however, began to appear in Mesopotamia in the early days of the Indus civilization- Carnelian beads, for example, are known from some of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, dated between [...]