What is the correct relation between India's location and trade spread?

Correct answer: Goods like spices and muslin reached outside through sea and land routes

The direct answer is A: goods such as spices and muslin travelled beyond India through sea and land routes. Location matters because India lies between important eastern and western regions and has a long coastline. Traders could use ships across the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, while roads and passes connected India with neighbouring lands. Step by step: valuable goods were produced or collected; merchants carried them to markets; land routes or sea routes connected those markets; therefore Indian goods reached distant places. A is correct because it joins actual goods with actual transport routes. B is wrong because India had many trade goods, including spices, cotton textiles and muslin. C is wrong because routes enabled trade rather than stopping it. D is wrong because trade was not carried out only through polar ice; India’s warm seas and overland routes were important. Memory cue: goods plus routes equals trade spread.