Indianocean

Indian Ocean Trade- Classical Era

By Awatson7
  • Sugar Cane
    1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

    Sugar cane reached India. Sugar was known in Persia as a wonderful luxury for cooking and sweetening.
  • Bananas
    1000 BCE

    Bananas

    Bananas were cultivated in South Asia, then traveled to India. Bananas may have reached Africa by 1000 B.C.E.
    They spread as a crop and a food into China.
  • 1000 BCE

    Long Distance Trade

    Historians think that long-distance trade from Egypt to Mesopotamia may have declined around 1000 B.C.E.
    During the second half of the millennium, trade expanded among new groups of people.
  • Sabaean Bronze Bull
    1000 BCE

    Sabaean Bronze Bull

    The Sabaean Bronze Bull was a symbol of strength. It was a hallow bronze statue from Sabaean culture in Southern Arabia.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1 BCE

    Phoenicians

    The Phoenicians dominated trade and travel. They specialized in making glass products. They also imported wine, olives, olive oil, wheat, spices, metals, honey, and cedar wood.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Classical Era

    During the classical era, long-distance trade expanded greatly from 1000 B.C.E.-300 B.C.E.
  • Period: 700 BCE to 601 BCE

    Indigo Plant

    The indigo plant was used to make dye. Indigo was used as a pigment, or coloring agent, in inks and paint.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 300 BCE

    Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia

    Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, spread across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia.
  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Religion

    The beginning of Buddhism as a religion.
  • Period: 551 BCE to 471 BCE

    Confucius

    The beginning of the philosophy Confucianism.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire.
    Also founded the city of Alexandria in Egypt which became a major center of art and trade.
  • 500 BCE

    Greek and Roman

    Greek and Roman sailors and traders entered the Indian Ocean after 500 B.C.E. sent there by Persian ruler Darius I.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 100 BCE

    Camel Saddle

    The camel saddle was developed in Northern Arabia. This allowed the camel to carry heavy loads.The frame held the saddle over the hump with two pieces of wood or rope on both sides of the hump.
  • Cinnamon
    440 BCE

    Cinnamon

    Herodotus presents the ideas on the origin of cinnamon.
    Cinnamon was traded though the "Cinnamon Route" between Southeast Asia and the East African coast.
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    Cloves

    Cloves were used to sweeten the court officials breath while they talked to the King. They were an important part of the spice trade.
  • 106 BCE

    Silk Road

    Trade and interaction along the routes. Zhang Qian first crossed and it became known as the silk road.
  • Pepper
    100 BCE

    Pepper

    Pepper comes from a wild vine known as Piper nigrum. The spice was considered valuable that ancient Romans used it as a form of money. It was equal to gold.
  • Period: 4 to 30

    Christianity

    In 4 C.E. to 30 C.E. - The birth of Jesus in Nazareth. Beginning of Christianity
  • Period: 45 to 58

    Apostle Paul

    From 45 C.E. to 58 C.E. Apostle Paul traveled to spread Christianity around the Mediterranean.
  • Red Sea
    275

    Red Sea

    In 275 C.E. The Red Sea was founded by Egyptian King Ptolemy II to use as a harbor for importing African elephants.