"This allowed this class to control specific trade routes and forms of trade goods." Trade likely played a vital role in Indus Valley society, Belcher said, and there were many long-standing trade ...

and extensive trade routes. Perhaps more importantly, it might help answer fundamental questions about who the Indus Valley people and their descendants were – a politically fraught debate about ...

A cradle of ancient human advancement, the Indus Valley Civilisation is a legacy ... these exchanges — what goods were traded, how trade routes were established, and the extent to which trade ...

We have not been able to clearly understand the writing system of the once flourishing Indus Valley,' he said ... discoveries suggest that trade routes between Mesopotamia and the Indus were ...

Each settlement sought to support and maintain the larger urban centres, growing along major trade routes. Five large cities identified as the major urban centers of the Indus Valley civilization ...

Trade was very important for the Indus civilisation ... We know that only the cities fell into ruins. Farmers in the Indus Valley went on living in their villages and working on their farms ...

the Indus Valley was home to an estimated one million people spread over a Texas-sized region in what is now India and Pakistan some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Located at the crossroads of historic ...