GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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Hiuen-Tsang
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Megasthenese
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I Ching
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Fahien
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Detailed explanation-1: -Megasthenes, ambassador of Seleucus Nikator was the first foreign traveller to India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Megasthenes is the very first foreigner to be visited India from Greek. He had worked as ambassador of Selecus I of Syria.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal 65, 000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within south and southeast Asia took place. West-Asian (Iranian) hunter-gatherers migrated to South Asia after the Last Glacial Period but before the onset of farming.
Detailed explanation-4: -1264–≈1269: First expedition of the Italians Niccolò and Maffeo Polo to China. In 1266 they reach Kublai Khan’s seat at Dadu (now known as Beijing) in China. 1271–1295: Second trip of Niccolò and Maffeo Polo to China.