Indian Ocean trade

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  • 3000 BCE

    First trade

    Traders in small boats moved between trading ports along coastlines from Arabia to the Indian subcontinent.
  • 2000 BCE

    Monsoon cycles

    Merchants began using the monsoon winds to help them travel. They were able to predicte the pattern of the winds and use the winds to push them along in a faster way.
  • 800 BCE

    Trading Partners

    Major empires involved in the Indian Ocean trade included the Mauryan Empire in India, the Han Dynasty in China, the Achaemenid Empire in Persia, and the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean.
  • 800 BCE

    African City-states

    Places like Kilwa, Sofala, Mombasa, and Malindi began to get involved in trade on the Idian Ocena. These African city-states exported gold, ivory, and iron to India, Southeast Asia, and China.
  • 500 BCE

    Sailors and Traders from Rome and Greece began trading on the Indian Ocean

    They traded ceramics, glassware, wine, gold, olive oil. In return they imported Indian lime, peach, and various other fruits and used them for medicine.
  • 500 BCE

    New trade route

    A route is developed through the straits of Malacca. This linked the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea.
  • 254 BCE

    Religon

    Goods were not the only thing that was traded on the Indian Ocean. religions such as Buddism travled from port to port.
  • 661

    Rise of the Umayyad

    The rise of the Umayyad on the Arabian Peninsula provided a powerful western connection for the trade routes.
  • 960

    Song Dynasty

    The Song dynasty encourged land based trading on the silk raod as well as marina trading. They also created a powerful imperial navy to control piracy on the eastern end of the route.
  • 1490

    Fawaid

    Ahmad Ibn Majid writes a navigational encyclopedia for Indian Ocean sailors
  • 1498

    Pirates

    The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean trade began their time as pirates instead traders. They seized port cities like Calicut on India's west coast and Macau, in southern China. The Portuguese.
  • 1499

    Vasco da Gama

    Not all Portuguese were pirates. Vasco da Gama was the first person to sail a Portuguese ship to India to establish a trade network
  • 1564

    New World

    The Portuguese use the Phillippines to create a trade network from the Indian Ocean to the New World.

  • European Power

    The Dutch appeared in the Indian Ocean as the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch sought a total monopoly on lucrative spices like nutmeg and mace.

  • British East Indian Company

    The British joined in with their British East India Company, this challenged the Dutch who had been controling the trade routes. .

  • Battle of Plassey

    After the battle of Plassey the British gian territorial power in India and power over the trade routes.

  • Sextant

    This navigation tool, called a sextant, was made in the late 18th century. Captain James Cook used it during his third voyage to the Pacific, which included the Indian Ocean.It measures te latitude by measuring the sun's distance from the horizon. It also calculated longitude by measuring the angle between the moon and stars.

  • Tea

    England got alomost half of there tea from India. It was drank by both the rich and poor. The rich drank their tea with fine sugar that was imported and the poor drank their tea with sweet molasses syrup.

  • Container Ships

    Container Ships are used to carry more goods from around the world. They can be resued many times since they are made of metal.

  • Tsunami Warning Sytem

    The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System is made up of 25 seismographs and three deep ocean sensors to detect tsunamis.