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It was in the fourteenth century that charkha began to be used in India. Indians adopted this technology from the _________.

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Arabs
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Europeans
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Americans
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Chinese
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The correct option is D Chinese
The charkha is a small, portable, hand-cranked wheel, ideal for spinning cotton and other fine fibres. There is evidence that spinning wheels had already come into use in both China and the Islamic world during the eleventh century. From China,the technology spread to different parts of Asia including India.

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