Prepare a short note about the agricultural and trade progress in the vijayanagar empire
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Commerce was inland, coastal and overseas. The city of Vijayanagara was the most important seat of commerce in the country. It carried on trade in diamonds, rubies, pearls etc. Also Calicut was another important port on the Malabar Coast.
Commerce was inland, coastal and overseas. The city of Vijayanagara was the most important seat of commerce in the country. It carried on trade in diamonds, rubies, pearls etc. Also Calicut was another important port on the Malabar Coast.According to Abdur Razaq, “There were as many as 300 sea ports in the Vijayanagara empire. There were commercial relations with the islands in the Indian Ocean, the Malaya Archipelago, Burma, China, Arabia, Persia, South Africa, Abyssinia and Portugal. The imports were horses, elephants, pearls, copper, coral, mercury, China silk and velvet. The exports were cloth, rice, iron, salt petre, sugar and spices.
Commerce was inland, coastal and overseas. The city of Vijayanagara was the most important seat of commerce in the country. It carried on trade in diamonds, rubies, pearls etc. Also Calicut was another important port on the Malabar Coast.According to Abdur Razaq, “There were as many as 300 sea ports in the Vijayanagara empire. There were commercial relations with the islands in the Indian Ocean, the Malaya Archipelago, Burma, China, Arabia, Persia, South Africa, Abyssinia and Portugal. The imports were horses, elephants, pearls, copper, coral, mercury, China silk and velvet. The exports were cloth, rice, iron, salt petre, sugar and spices.The main industries of the Vijayanagara empire were cloth, perfumes and utensils of various kinds. The traders and those engaged in industries were organised into trade guilds to look after the interests of trade and industry.