Indus River Valley: Trade and Cultural Diffusion Questions

What does trade mean?

• To give people gifts

• The buying, selling, and exchange of goods

• Spreading ideas and culture

• Carrying things to other civilizations.

What is cultural diffusion?

• Not being sure which culture you're a part of

• The buying, selling, and exchanging of goods.

• heavy rain in India

• The spread of ideas and culture to toher places.

How did trade connect the Indus Valley yo other civilizations?

• They had contracts with other civilizations

• It allowed them to share goods and ideas with other civilizations

• It allowed them to travel

• It allowed them to meet people.

What types of things did the Indus trade? Pick 3.

• cotton cloth

• gold

• pottery

• beads

A person who buys and sells goods, especially while traveling or trading between different places.

• merchant

• pharaoh

• scribe

• entrepreneur

What is a caravan?

• A person who buys and sells goods, especially while traveling or trading between different places.

• A group of Northern invaders

• A group of people and animals (like camels) traveling together across long distances, often to trade goods.

• goods that people transfer from North to South

What are "goods"???

• laws that people in India followed

• gifts made for women in other countries

• Being reborn

• Items that are made, grown, or produced for people to buy, sell, or trade (for example: food, clothing, or pottery).

Choose 2 Hindu beliefs

• restitution

• reincarnation

• khaff

• dharma

What belief was shaped in the Indus River Valley?

• Monotheism

• Hinduism

• Polytheism

• Catholicism