HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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In ancient India, the area around which among the following modern areas was known as “Golden Chersonese”?
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Kashmir, Hindukush, Afghanistan
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Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Burma
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Australia, New Zealand
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Iran, Iraq and Persian Gulf
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Chersonese means peninsula in Greek, and although a few early scholars had attempted to link the Golden Chersonese with Lower Burma, the term is now generally accepted to mean the Malay Peninsula .
Detailed explanation-2: -Did you know that even before the name Malaya, Malaysia was named the Golden Peninsula? The Chersonesus Aurea or the Golden Peninsula was first referenced in the atlas and gazetteer of Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemy in 150 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Before our country was named Malaysia, or even Malaya, it was called Aurea Chersonesus, which means “peninsula of gold”; the name was given by a Greco-Roman geographer named Ptolemy.
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