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The most important Egyptian industries were building, stone-cutting, weaving, furniture-making, chariot making glass-blowing, pottery, metallurgy, boat-build
Industary ing and embalming. The Sumerians carried on building, weaving, weapon making, jewellery-making and other ancillary industries.10 Industry in Bharata was most efficiently and scientifically organised. Metallurgists smelted silver, lead and copper and worked gold too. Metallurgy, weaving, building, tools-making, pottery, boat-building and secondary industries were at their highest prosperity. Indus folk were ahead of their Sumerian or Egyptian fellows in secondary industries. The tools and weapons produced by the smith look more primitive than the Sumerian." Indus people had developed their brick industry in a very efficient manner. Indus masonary is some 500 years earlier in date than the similar masonary in Sumer and this style of masonary goes back to even earlier times in the Indus valley for it occurr down to the lowest levels.19
It appears that the internal trade was in the hands of the private people. The international trade was centrally organised by the community. In Egypt, was the wholesale merchant.
Pharaob
International Trade
Foreign trade was the royal monopoly." Pharaoh was the litatery head of the community as the Sumerian city-god was. In Sumer, the import and export trade was organised at the centre. The merchant was exclusively concerned with export and import trade for which he received an allotment of land which is significantly a certain proof that he was in the service of the community." Bhartiya merchants carried on foreign trade through land and sea-routes.15 Bharata had international trade with Sumer and Egypt. Herodotus informs us that the Phoenicians who originally came from the coasts of the Indian oceans carried
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