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Cowries have found their way from China and West Africa to Maldives.

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The above statement is False.
Cowries—cowdi in Hindi—seashells used as money—found their way to China and East Africa from the Maldives. Travellers, traders, priests, and pilgrims have travelled great distances since antiquity to seek information, opportunities, and spiritual fulfilment and to flee oppression. They transported commodities, cash, virtues, know-how, concepts, innovations, and even pathogens and diseases. A thriving maritime trade network connected West Asia and the Indus valley civilisations as early as 3000 BCE. For over a thousand years, Maldivian cowries—cowdi in Hindi—seashells used as money—found their way to China and East Africa.
The correct statement would be that cowries have found their way from Maldives to China and East Africa.

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