History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c39.s2.t3.9

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International trade seems to have started a millennium after the collapse of the Harappan civilization and before the ‘historical period’. Around 1015 B.C., King Solomon of Palestine received from Ophir - now identified as Sauvira in the Gulf of Cambay - gold, silver, ivory and peacocks. Homer reported trade with India. Thus the process of second urbanization in India had started right in the beginning of the first millennium B.C. through initial trade contacts and gradual territorial expansions.