"Another continuous theme is Gujarat’s trade with the Persian Gulf.... Just as Sargon boasted of Indian ships bringing its goods to Mesopotamia, it has always been dependent on the subcontinent’s products that its own harsh environment could not produce, not a ‘cradle of civilisation,’ but a vital choke point between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, thus a conduit or entrepot from the real cradle: the Indian subcontinent."
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