UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2012 · Q2(b) · 30 marks
Justify Pliny’s statement the Rome was being drained out of its gold by India during the first century of the Christian era.
- Chapter
- Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas)
- Topic
- Trade, Roman Contacts and Urban Growth
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