Question 3

List the major exports and imports in ancient India.

Answer

Major export items of India are spices, wheat, sugar, indigo, opium, sesame oil, cotton, parrot, live animals and animal products- hides, skin, furs, horns, tortoise shells, pearls, sapphires, quartz, crystal, lapis, lazuli, granites, turquoise and copper etc.

And major imports items are horses, animal products, Chinese silk, flax and linen, wine, gold, silver, tin, copper, lead, rubies, coral, glass, amber, etc.

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