Indian Ocean Trading Routes

By katelyn.shepheard
  • 1000 BCE

    1000 BCE

    -In Western Asia, Southeastern Europe and North Africa they use an iron production called iron metallurgy
    -King David makes Jerusalem a capital city
    -People began to settle in India -Southeast Asia traded sugar cane with India where it was cultivated on a larger scale
    -Had Mediterranean routes:
    -Tingis, Carthage, Leptis (all Africa)
    -Cyrene and Memphis (Asia)
  • 800 BCE

    800 BCE

    There was a rise in the Nubian Kingdom Napata and Nubia takes over Egypt
    -Languages spoken:
    -Swahili in Africa
    -Arabic
    -Over 300 more languages
  • 700 BCE

    700 BCE

    -Zhou kingdom ends in China
    -Silk was found in Babylon and traded with Greek, Roman, and Chinese
    -Chinese silks were dyed indigo during this period
    -Navigation of Polaris is using the stars in the sky to tell direction, it is one of the inventions made during this time frame
  • 500 BCE

    500 BCE

    -Beliefs such as Buddha and Confucianism started
    -Darius I rules the Empire
    -Roman Republic begins
    -Used ancient fishing boats
    -Used camel saddles in Southwest Asia and North Africa
    -Cinnamon is native to China but spread throughout Southeast Asia
  • 400 BCE

    400 BCE

    -Traders from India reached Southeast Asia by crossing Isthmus of Kra
    -End of the Persian wars in 448 BCE
    -Hanno of Carthage explores the West
  • 300 BCE

    300 BCE

    -Alexander the Great conquers western Asia
    -Jetvana Stupa was built which was a Buddhist monument
    -Spread of religion and culture from India to Southeast Asia was often an increase of trade
    -Indonesia was native for cloves and traded with Romans, Europe, and Southeast Asia
    -Frankincense and Myrrh were an important part of the Arabian Peninsula, Mediterranean, and the Near east
    -Also used as insect repellent, medicine, and embalming for Egyptian mummuies
  • 200 BCE

    200 BCE

    -The one-humped camel and the date palm had spread from southern Arabia to Somalia in east Africa to Ethiopia and Egypt
    -Rouletted pottery has been found in many places in India and traded with the Romans and Greeks
    -Han Dynasty rules until Qin emperor takes over
    -Disease such as small pox, measles, and bubonic plague killed millions of people
  • 100 BCE

    0-100 BCE

    -Peppers are native to India and they traded with regions around them
    -Caesar Augustus rules the empire in 31 BCE
    -Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • 100

    100 CE

    -Jesus died on the cross 30 CE
    -Spread Christianity in 45 CE
    -Millets and tiff had spread to the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to Yemen and east Africa, south of Somalia -Silk was exchanged along a series of trade routes called the "Silk Road" which connected all the countries
    -Ships were a means of transportation to transport large amounts of goods