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History Notes On – Roman Trade With India – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
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Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common Era following the reign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt.The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long and dangerous coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome.Continue Reading History Notes On – Roman Trade With India – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
Roman trade diaspora stopped in Southern India, establishing trading settlements which remained long after the fall of the Roman empire and Rome’s loss of the Red Sea ports,which had previously been used to secure trade with India by the Greco-Roman world since the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Contact between the Greco-Roman Empire had been far more extensive the previously thought. Alexander the Great established contact with India by way of his aborted invasion of India in the 4th century B.C.E., followed by the establishment of a Indo-Greco dynasty in northwest India before Christ. Rome’s trade route by sea to southwest India opened an exchange of goods and ideas that may have had far reaching impact upon Judaism in Israel, Christianity, and the philosophical views of the Roman Empire. Roman merchants became aware of the teachings of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The possibility that Jesus traveled to southern India by Roman merchant ship out of a Red Sea port is likely. The Apostle Thomas’s voyage to India to start a Christian mission has sounder evidence to support it. India’s impact upon Israel, Christianity, and the Greco-Roman empire before, during, and after the time of Christ may have been extensive.
The Seleucid dynasty controlled a developed network of trade with India which had previously existed under the influence of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty.The Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, controlling the western and northern end of other trade routes to Southern Arabia and India, had begun to exploit trading opportunities with India prior to the Roman involvement but according to the historian Strabo the volume of commerce between India and Greece paled compared to later Indian-Roman trade.
The Periplus Maris Erythraei mentions a time when sea trade between India and Egypt occurred through indirect sailings.The cargo under those situations shipped to Aden.The Ptolemaic dynasty had developed trade with India using the Red Sea ports.</ref> With the establishment of Roman Egypt, the Romans took over and further developed the already existing trade using those ports.
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