Indirect rule is a type of government in which existing political elites and institutions continue to rule in a country. The sentence, 'Indirect rule sowed the seeds for class and ethic tension' means that, indirect rule was the root cause, the principal reason why class and ethnic tensions occurred. The indirect rule was the factor that brings about class and ethnic tension.
dessert mountains and massive valleys each was a factor in each of these country's and later on a "silk road" is what the trade route from china to India was later called hope this helps
