HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chinese trade with the Roman Empire, confirmed by the Roman desire for silk, started in the 1st century BC.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ancient Rome’s main trading partners were Spain, France, the Middle East, and North Africa. Since farming was a large part of the Roman economy, many of the exports were food or products made from crops. Grapes, oil, and grain were a few of the major exports.
Detailed explanation-3: -Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China.
Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest Roman glassware bowl found in China was unearthed from a Western Han tomb in Guangzhou, dated to the early 1st century BCE, indicating that Roman commercial items were being imported through the South China Sea.
Detailed explanation-5: -Due to the region’s strategic status as an international centre for trade, Romans acquired products from the Coromandel Coast – such as horses, pearls, or spices – and from different parts of South Indian subcontinent, Ceylon and South East Asia.