The importance food-grains, we have is, fibrous plants. These were of great service to humanity since they supplied man with materials for clothing and thereby protected him from the extremes of heat and cold. In India, not only do we find a large number of such plants but most of these seem to have been indigenous to her soil where [...]
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 [...]