Indian Ocean Trade Networks

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  • Period: 1000 BCE to 300

    Classical Period

  • 800 BCE

    Rise of Nubian kingdom at Napata.

    From 712-660 BCE, Nubia dominates Egypt.
  • 771 BCE

    Zhou kingdom ends in China

  • 600 BCE

    Iron metallurgy is known in China.

  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Life of Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha, in India, and the beginning of Buddhism as a religion.

  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Life of Confucius in China, and the beginning of the philosophy of Confucianism

  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    Dairs I rules the Persian Empire

  • 507 BCE

    The Roman Republic begins.

  • 505 BCE

    Camels and Date Production

    Camels and date palms spread from southern Arabia to Somalia and then from there to Ethiopia and Egypt.
  • 500 BCE

    Hanno

    Hanno was the king of Carthage. Around this time, he sailed around the western coast of Africa. He was sent to explore Libya. His route went from the Straits of Gibraltar and around the African coast. It went down as far as the present-day Gabon. He established several colonies and cities along the coast of Morocco as well as a trading post located on a small island that is off the coast of Mauritania.
  • Period: 477 BCE to 404 BCE

    Athenian Empire in Greece

    The Age of Pericles from the end of the Persian Wars in 448 BCE to the death of Pericles in 329 BCE. Trial and death of Socrates in 399 BCE.
  • 440 BCE

    Cinnamon in the Histories of Herodotus

    Herodotus suggests that cinnamon came from Bacchus' birthplace. Others think it was India or Africa. We now know it was traded along the silk road
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300 BCE

    Kingdom of Meroe in Nubia

  • Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquers western Asia and begins the Hellenistic period

  • Period: 323 BCE to 330 BCE

    Ptolemaic kings rule Egypt

  • 465

    Hanno of Carthage explores West African coast