📍 Places

Cities, capitals, monuments and battlefields: every place on YugMap, and what happened there through time.

👑 Capitals through time 🏛 Monuments & heritage 🐫 Trade & travel

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🐫 Trade & travel

From the sixth century BCE, land and river routes criss-crossed the subcontinent and extended overland into Central Asia and overseas across the Arabian Sea. Spices, especially pepper, were in high demand in the Roman Empire, as were textiles and medicinal plants. Summarised from NCERT Class 12, Kings, Farmers and Towns ↗
Pataliputra
On the river routes
Ujjain
On the land routes (Ujjayini)
Mathura
A bustling centre of trade, culture and politics
Puhar
Near the coast, where sea routes began
Not on the map yet: no verified location on the site.
🐫 Multan → Delhi
Ibn Battuta’s caravan route (14th century) — his caravan was attacked on the way; trade routes had inns and an efficient postal system.
NCERT, Through the Eyes of Travellers ↗

The route line is a sketch between the two places named in the source, not the exact road.