why did the Romans used to call India the sink of world bullion explain the statement
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We shouldn't forget that India was always the maritime country and was connected to several countries throught the ports.
Romans senators used to complain that their women used too many Indian spices and luxuries which used to drain their yellow metal i.e gold.
There was a time when merchants did paid indian merchants this yellow metal in purchase of those spices and it was somewhat a loosing situation for them as the indians were not much interested in buying their products.
In other words “India was also called the sink of world's gold.
It was only in the 19 th century when the bullion flow reversed from India to other countries when machine made textiles from England 's industrial revolution made Indian handloom obsolete.Indians had finally found something they wanted from the west.
Gold thus came to our shores through the sea ports of South India