INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The chief centre of the Indo-Roman trade was the port in the southern coast known as Muziris . Muziris is an ancient lost port city situated on the south-western coast of India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The regional ports of Barbaricum (modern Karachi), Sounagoura (central Bangladesh), Barygaza (Bharuch in Gujarat), Muziris (present day Kodungallur), Korkai, Kaveripattinam and Arikamedu (Tamil Nadu) on the southern tip of present-day India were the main centers of this trade, along with Kodumanal, an inland city.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indo-Roman trade was mainly in luxury items and the Roman Empire paid for these in Roman gold coins. Chinese goods with the exception of silk were first brought to India and then dispatched to the eastern frontiers of the Roman Empire. Silk was directly sent to Europe along the silk route.

Detailed explanation-4: -Based on these excavations, Wheeler concluded that the Arikamedu was a Greek (Yavana) trading post that traded with Rome, starting during the reign of Augustus Caesar, and lasted about two hundred years-from the late first century BCE to the first and second centuries CE.

Detailed explanation-5: -Complete answer: Muziris and Arikamedu were main ports for Indo-Roman trade in India and Madurai has been a big trading centre in India for long.