UPSC History The Gupta Empire Question Bank Ancient History

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    Consider the following pairs:
    Foreigner Traveler Reign of King
    1.Megasthenes Harshavardhan
    2.Fahien Chandragupta-II
    3. Thomas Roe Aurangzeb
    Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

    A) 2 and 3 only                 

    B) 2 only                

    C)  1 and 3 only                

    D)  1, 2 and 3

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    Megasthenes was a Greek traveller and geographer to whom the subsequent Greek writers were chiefly indebted for their accounts of India. The hell enistic king Seleucus I sent him as an ambassador to the court of King Chandragupta Maurya in India. Fahien was a Chinese pilgrim visited India during the reign of Chandragupta II. Sir Thomas Roe visited to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir's court in 1615.


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