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Q9. Look at the major trade routes of early India (Fig 5.12). How do you think these routes helped people in the exchange of goods, skills, beliefs, and cultural practices.
Concept
Trade: Trade Routes and Ports
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Suggested answer / inference:
the map and text show the routes; the cultural effects are inferred from the movement they enabled.
- The Dakshinapatha and Uttarapatha linked different regions of the subcontinent and were connected to coastal ports.
- The chapter explicitly says these routes facilitated the movement of goods, people and ideas .
- Goods could therefore move between inland regions and ports, while travelling merchants and other people could carry skills, beliefs, languages and cultural practices from one region to another.
- By connecting overland and maritime networks, the routes helped different regions interact economically and culturally.
Revision: Question 9
Routes
Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha, linked to ports
What moved
Goods, people and ideas
Effect
Inland regions connected to coastal trade
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Trade routes carried not only goods but skills, beliefs and languages between regions
