Choose the correct answer:

Assertion (A): Assyrians of Mesopotamian civilisation were contemporaries of Indus civilisation.

Reason(R): The Documents of an Assyrian ruler refer to the ships from Meluha

a) is the answer because (A) explains (R):

• The Indus Valley Civilization also existed about the same time period of Assyrians which were a part of Mesopotamian civilization.

• Meluḫḫa or Melukhkha is the Sumerian name of a prominent trading partner of Sumer.

• It was during the Middle Bronze Age.

• Its identification remains an open question.

• Most historians relate it to the Indus Valley Civilization.

• Indications are there for goods-transportation from Sumer to Lothal Gujarat in western India and later shipped from there to Oman, Bahrain, and Sumer.