people who lived in the river valley made a living off of trade and farming.

Farm and Trade in The INdus Vallley

⚪️Most People were farmers who grew a wide varitey of crops Such as wheat, barley, sesame, mustard, and dates.

⚪️They may have been the first people to cultivate cotton and weave its fibers into cloth.

⚪️Some People were Merchants Traders who had boats to fish and carry cloth, grain, copper and pearls to distant lands.

⚪️The Indus vessels reached the cities of sumer and mesopotamia.

⚪️This contact with sumer may have driven the people of the indus valley to create their own language.

⚪️The People of the Indus also domesticated animals such as cats, dogs, cattle, and possibly pigs, camels, and horses.

⚪️ From every crop a farmer grew, a portion of it had to be put into the public grainery.