Classical Period Indian Ocean Trade Timeline

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  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane Reaches India

    Sugar Cane reaches India, starts to be grown there, and becomes an instrumental crop in trade in the region.
  • 1000 BCE

    Iron Making.

    Iron making practices are known in west Asia, southeast Europe, and northern Africa.
  • 1000 BCE

    Aryans

    The Aryan people settled in India.
  • 1000 BCE

    Jerusalem

    King David makes Jerusalem the capital city.
  • 800 BCE

    Nubian Kingdom

    The Nubian people rose up at Napata, making it the Nubian Kingdom.
  • 771 BCE

    Zhou Kingdom

    The Zhou Kingdom's reign in China comes to an end.
  • Period: 712 BCE to 660 BCE

    Nubia Dominates

    The Nubian Kingdom dominate Egypt.
  • 600 BCE

    Iron Making.

    Iron making methods finally make their way to China.
  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Life of Buddah

    This is when Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Buddah, was alive in India. This is when the Buddhist religion started.
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucius

    The lifespan of Confucius, this is when Confucianism philosophy started to take place in China.
  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius I

    Darius I ruled the Persian Empire
  • 507 BCE

    The Roman Republic

    The Roman Republic was formed in this year.
  • 465 BCE

    Hanno's Exploration

    Hanno explored western Africa.
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300 BCE

    Meroe

    The Meroe kingdom ruled Nubian land.
  • Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great of Macedonia

    Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered western Asia and with that began the Hellenistic period until the Roman empire emerged.
  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    Ptolemic Kings

    Ptolemic rulers ruled Egypt in a monarchy type of ruling. They were commonly referred to as Pharaohs
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    Cloves

    Cloves are cited all over the Mediterranean, being exported from China. Cloves were also a very important plant in trade in the region.
  • Period: 206 BCE to 221

    Han Dynasty

    The Han dynasty ruled China until the Qin Emperor united eastern China in 221 C.E.
  • Period: 49 BCE to 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar Rules

    Julius Caesar rules the Roman Empire. Caesar made many changes to the Empire in his short reign, and pushed science heavily.
  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar's Assination

    Julius Caesar is assassinated by his Senate for being suspected of setting up a monarchy in the Roman Empire.
  • Period: 31 BCE to 14

    The Rule of Augustus Caesar.

    Octavian, Julius Caesar's adopted son, who ended up stepping into his father's shoes, becoming the emperor of the Roman Empire, and adopting the name Augustus Caesar, even making the name Caesar the roman word for emperor.
  • 30 BCE

    Death Of Cleopatra

    Cleopatra Dies, and Augustus Caesar becomes the ruler of the new Roman Empire.
  • Period: 4 to 30

    Life of Jesus.

    The life of Jesus in Nazareth, following his death the Christianity started, and began to spread.