Indian Ocean Trade Timeline

  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

  • 1000 BCE

    Bananas

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1000

    Indian Ocean Trade Timeline

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1 CE

    Phoenicians

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Classical Era

  • 750 BCE

    Persian

  • Period: 750 BCE to 666 BCE

    Moroe

  • 700 BCE

    Indigo PLant

  • Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE

    Aksum

  • 600 BCE

    Trade Network

  • 600 BCE

    Greek Coin Currency

  • 600 BCE

    Iron & Silk

  • Period: 600 BCE to 600

    Dhows and Lateen sails

  • Period: 600 BCE to 300 BCE

    Religion Spreads

  • Period: 515 BCE to 510 BCE

    Scylax of Caryanda

  • 500 BCE

    Greek and Roman sailors and traders

  • 500 BCE

    Saddles

  • 500 BCE

    Cinnamon

  • 400 BCE

    Isthmus of Kra

  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • 332 BCE

    Alexandria

  • Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE

    Period of Mauryan Rule

  • 300 BCE

    Frankincense and myrrh

  • 300 BCE

    Berenike

  • 200 BCE

    Saddle improvements and saddle knob

  • 200 BCE

    Date palm and one-humped camel

  • Period: 200 BCE to 500

    Angkor Borei and Oc Eo

  • 100 BCE

    Pepper