Trade and transport
Apart from agriculture and hunting, the people of Indus Valley civilization make a living for themselves by trading different goods. In the Indus civilization there is a well-knight external and internal trade. Trading of different goods helps the Indus Civilization expand its culture, and trade with faraway lands. Coastline and many rivers provide the Indus Valley people to trade with other civilizations that are found near water. The people of the Indus Valley use weights and measures in their business transaction. A complex system of weights that involve small stone cubes is used as a weighing system of the Harappan Civilization. The weights are made of limestone, steatite, etc.
Farmers buy food into the cities. City workers make such things as pots, beads and cotton cloth. Traders brought the materials workers needed, and took away finished goods to trade in other cities. Some goods that are trade include Terracotta pots, beads, gold and silver, colored gem stones such as turquoise and lapis lazuli, metals, flints (for making stone tools), seashells and pearls. Minerals come from Iran and Afghanistan. Lead and copper come from India. Jade comes from China and cedar tree wood is floated down the rivers from Kashmir and the Himalayas.
Traders carry on trade in the country as well as with other countries like Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Persia Afghanistan and southern India. Inhabitants of the Indus valley trade with Mesopotamia, southern India, Afghanistan, and Persia for gold, silver, copper, and turquoise.
Shallow harbors located at the estuaries (the mouth of rivers) of rivers opening into the sea allow brisk maritime trade with Mesopotamian cities.
It is considered the first civilization to use wheeled transport. These advances in transportation and technology include bullock carts, as well as boats. Most of these boats are small, flat-bottomed craft. A a dredged canal is used as a docking facility at the coastal city of Lothal in Western India, were boast past and exchange goods with other people.
The people use camels, oxen and elephants to travel over land. They have carts with wooden wheels. They also have ships with one mast, believed to sail around the Arabian Sea.
Some of their trade networks encircle a wide area, including parts of Afghanistan, the coastal regions of Persia, northern and western India, and Mesopotamia. As well as parts of Crete and Egypt.
Currency
Farmers buy food into the cities. City workers make such things as pots, beads and cotton cloth. Traders brought the materials workers needed, and took away finished goods to trade in other cities. Some goods that are trade include Terracotta pots, beads, gold and silver, colored gem stones such as turquoise and lapis lazuli, metals, flints (for making stone tools), seashells and pearls. Minerals come from Iran and Afghanistan. Lead and copper come from India. Jade comes from China and cedar tree wood is floated down the rivers from Kashmir and the Himalayas.
Traders carry on trade in the country as well as with other countries like Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Persia Afghanistan and southern India. Inhabitants of the Indus valley trade with Mesopotamia, southern India, Afghanistan, and Persia for gold, silver, copper, and turquoise.
Shallow harbors located at the estuaries (the mouth of rivers) of rivers opening into the sea allow brisk maritime trade with Mesopotamian cities.
It is considered the first civilization to use wheeled transport. These advances in transportation and technology include bullock carts, as well as boats. Most of these boats are small, flat-bottomed craft. A a dredged canal is used as a docking facility at the coastal city of Lothal in Western India, were boast past and exchange goods with other people.
The people use camels, oxen and elephants to travel over land. They have carts with wooden wheels. They also have ships with one mast, believed to sail around the Arabian Sea.
Some of their trade networks encircle a wide area, including parts of Afghanistan, the coastal regions of Persia, northern and western India, and Mesopotamia. As well as parts of Crete and Egypt.
Currency
- There isn't metallic money in the civilization and trade is carried through a Barter System, a system of exchange in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.