Answer:
The Gupta Empire may have been able to flourish through trade because of its rather convenient location near major waterways and and Seas, which should've been bustling with civilization at that time, judging from the many pilgrim colonies that popped up in more popular trade routes. With trading materials like cloth, salt, iron and more valuable resources like silver and gold to large colonies/empires near them at the time, they would've grown rich and have flourished through the trade that they did. India also had many other civilization groups around them at the time to trade with, not to mention that the Empire was sandwiched right in between the majority of Asia and India, making trades between the two lands depend on the Gupta Empire.
Explanation:
(The answer is sufficient. I think.)
