Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.5

c7.5

India, and to make the Red Sea voyage. The latter feat was not repeated till the days of Eudoxus, three centuries later. The memoirs of Skylax have unfortunately perished, though they may have been utilized by Herodotus. Darius annexed the Indus valley and made it the twentieth satrapy of the Persian Empire. At that time the alluvial gold fields of Dardistān produced an immense quantity of gold, and the new province paid to the Great King the enormous tribute of 360 talents of gold-dust¹. They also supplied a light division to the Persian forces. The statement of Herodotus, that the Persian fleet "frequented the sea," seems to imply that Darius considerably developed the sea-traffic².