discuss the relations between the people of ancient Indian with the roman empire around 1st century CE
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Roman and Greek traders frequented the ancient Tamil country, present day Southern India and Sri Lanka, securing trade with the seafaring Tamil states of the Pandyan, Chola and Chera dynasties and establishing trading settlements which secured trade with the Indian subcontinent by the Greco-Roman world since the time ...
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Indo-Roman relations began during the reign of Augustus (16 January 27 BCE – 19 August 14 CE), the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The presence of Romans in the Scythia and India and the relations between these regions during the period of the Roman Empire are poorly documented. Before the conquests of Alexander in India, there are no surviving accounts by contemporaries or near-contemporaries, so modern understanding depends on more abundant literary, numismatic, and archaeological evidence, mainly relating to the trade between them.
Indo-Roman relations were built on trade. Roman trade in the India began with overland caravans and later by direct maritime trade following the conquest of Egypt by Augustus in 30 BCE.