SSC CGL 2020 PYQ — Question 43

SSC CGL - 3rd March 2020 Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q43

Sir Thomas Roe came as an official ambassador from King James I of England to which Mughal emperor's court?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct option is option 4 i.e. Jahangir.

Sir Thomas Roe Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. 
  To seek a trade agreement, Roe arrived at the port of Surat in September 1615 with a letter from King James I to the then reigning Mughal Emperor, Jahangir.
 

He tried to settle a trade agreement but could not even after trying for four years after which he eventually went back to England in 1619.