Classical period and the Indian Ocean

  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

    Sugar Cain reached India from Southeast Asia
  • 1000 BCE

    Aryan people

    Aryan people began to settle in India
  • 800 BCE

    Rise of Nubian Kingdom

    Rise of Nubian Kingdon
  • 771 BCE

    Zhou Kingdom Ends

  • 750 BCE

    Persians Migrate

    Persians started to migrate via the Indian Ocean
  • 600 BCE

    Silk and Iron

    Silk was exported from China and Iron was introduced to China
  • 465 BCE

    Hanno of Carthage explores the African coast

  • 332 BCE

    Alexandria

    Became hub of international trade
  • 206 BCE

    Han Dynasty rules China

  • 206 BCE

    Cloves

    Traded from China
  • 200 BCE

    Pearls

    Popular in the Roman Empire
  • 150 BCE

    Gold Coin

    Kushan gold coin was the currency of the Indian Ocean