You are a European trader in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Choose among the following the clothes that you can import from India to Europe.

Machine-made cloth

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Rayon cloth

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Cotton cloth

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Nylon cloth

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Solution

The correct option is C Cotton cloth
The Europeans, by the end of the sixteenth century, started trading of cotton cloths with the Asian countries, India was among them. India was famous for its cotton clothes. There was an export of ‘chintz’ to European countries from India. But by the early twentieth century, clothes made of artificial fibres started replacing cotton clothes.

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