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1. What goal did the Harappan and the Mesopotamians have when they traded with each other?

2. What two geographic features did they use to accomplish this goal?
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3. How do beads specifically support the idea that the Harappan and the Mesopotamians had contact with each other? How does the seal with the image of the Harappan interpreter also support this claim?
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4. Based on the reading, why do you think Chanakya liked to use unsuccessful merchants and traders as spies for the Mauryan Empire?

5. What geographic location did the Mauryans use to build their international trading network?

6. In the left column, list three things that were imported into the Mauryan Empire from foreign lands. In the right column, list three things that were exported from the Mauryan Empire to foreign lands.

Imported into the Mauryan Empire from foreign lands
Exported from the Mauryan Empire to foreign lands

7. Read this part of the section.

Beginning some time before the 3rd millennium ended in 3000 B. C.E., the Harappan of the Indus Valley began to trade with empires in Mesopotamia. Huge quantities of grain, textiles, timber, and metal ores were imported and exported between the two civilizations. One historian compares the relationship to the attraction between two magnets because the Harappan and Mesopotamian groups began to prefer trading with each other. This led the two civilizations to work together to direct the flow of the region’s resources so that their peoples could use as much of them as possible. The Harappan and the Mesopotamians used both overland routes and a water route through the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea to accomplish this goal.

Describe the three benefits that the Harappan and the Mesopotamians gained.
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8. Now read this sentence.

This led the two civilizations to work together to direct the flow of the region’s resources so that their peoples could use as much of them as possible.

What inference can you make about a possible cost in the region?

9. Are these sentences an example of correlation or causation? Explain your answer.

Strict regulations about the collection of crops and the payment of taxes were relaxed, or eased, as well. All of these measures helped Ashoka increase the productivity and economic activity of his empire.