Writing about the volume of Indo-Roman trade, who bitterly remarked not a year passed without the (Roman) Empire paying out 100 million sesterces (nearly one and a half-crore rupees) to India, to the Chera land and Arabia?

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Writing about the volume of Indo-Roman trade, who bitterly remarked “not a year passed without the (Roman) Empire paying out 100 million sesterces (nearly one and a half-crore rupees) to India, to the Chera land and Arabia”?

A	Caldwell
B	Ptolemy
C	Pliny
D	Author of Periplus

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Indo-Roman relations were built on trade. Roman trade in India began with overland caravans and later by direct maritime trade following the conquest of Egypt by Augustus in 30 BCE. According to Strabo (II.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pepper, a very important spice grown in South India was known as black gold in the Roman Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -The invasion of India by the Hunas began about a hundred years after the Kushanas’ invasion. India’s trade with the Roman Empire came to an end with the invasion of Rome by the Hunas.

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