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The discovery of monsoons by Hippalus gave a new direction to Indo-Roman trade during the Satavahana period. Comment.
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- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
According to the first-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and the Roman geographer Pliny, the Greek navigator Hippalus discovered around 45 CE that the monsoon winds could carry a ship directly across the open Arabian Sea to India, rather than forcing it to hug the Arabian and Persian coastline. Pliny, writing in his Natural History…
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