Traders ,kings and pilgrims.pptx by reva

anitha reva

1. welcome

2. What is trade?

Buying and selling goods is what
trade is all about

The sellers usually make a good
profit. That is how they earn a living

But, it is not all that simple...

3. What did people trade?

Gold, spices and precious stones
from South India were sold in the
Roman empire

4. What did people trade?
Pepper was also traded a lot.

It was so precious, it was called
black gold!

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5. What did people trade?

This trade was so much that a lot
of Roman gold coins have been
found in South India!

7. Trade towns in India

Most of the
entry points
are in South £

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And ALL of
those are from
the sea

8. Trade towns in India

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There must
have been a lot
of activity
happening in
these coastal
towns where
goods came in
or went out.

9. Trade towns in India

Where there is more business,
there is more money ...

. and where there is more mone
people pay more taxes ....

. which go to the person who
controls that town!

10. Coastal Kingdoms

In addition to the trade, there
were very fertile river valleys near
the coasts too

So, in these places the farmers
would get good crops and pay a lot
of tax tool

11. Coastal kingdoms

So, all the powerful chiefs there
wanted to control the coastal trade
towns

That is because the chief who
controlled these towns could
collect a lot of tax money!

12. Coastal Kingdoms

All these kings had a controlling
centre near the coast as well as
one inland

They received a lot of gifts from
the people in these towns

They also demanded money and
—__—aifts from the people

13. Coastal Kingdoms

The kings must have used the
money they collected for...

Military expeditions
Irrigation works and roads
AND 0...

14. Coastal Kingdoms

About 2300 years ago, there were
three ruling families wno became
very powerful in South India
The Cholas
The Cheras
The Pandyas

15. Coastal kingdoms

About 200 years after that a
dynasty Known as Satvahanas came
into power.

One king of that dynasty called
Gautamipura Shri Satakarni was a
very famous one

16. Think and discuss
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Why were the kings
interested in controlling
the coastal towns?

17. Trade was important!

It was a good way of making
money

The sellers tried to make a good
profit by bringing in goods from far
away lands

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What was the land route?

Let us look at that a little closely

19. Why the name Silk Route?

Mainly because a lot of silk was
carried for trade along this road

The silk was made in China and
then sent to the rest of the world

Many other items were traded too,
but silk was the maior trade item

20. Silk came only from China

The Chinese had figured out how to
make silk from cocoons

They didn’t share this secret with
the rest of the world

So, the only place that silk came
from was China

21. Think and discuss
2
It was difficult to use carts
along the Silk Route. Why?

22. Silk became fashionable

Since silk was expensive, only the
rich could afford it

[+ became fashionable in Europe to
wear silk

It showed that the person had

monevl

23. Control of the Silk Route

Since a lot of trade happened along
the Silk route, the strong rulers at
the time tried to control it

They wanted to control it because
they could collect a lot of money as
taxes and gifts from the traders

24. Control of the Silk Route

The best known
controllers of
the Silk Route

were the

Kushana kings

They ruled over
central Asia and
North West
India

25. Control of the Silk Route

Mathura,
Peshawar and
Taxila were their
major cities

They issued gold
coins that the

Silk Route
traders used

26. Think and discuss
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Why did kings want to
control the area around
the Silk Route?