Trade Development During the Classical Period

By emilydell
  • 5000 BCE

    Ancient Fishing Boats

    Known to be used for trading since the beginning.
  • Period: 700 BCE to 601 BCE

    Indigo Dye

    Created in Babylon
  • Period: 610 BCE to 595 BCE

    Pharaoh Necho II

    Ruled between this time. Began building a canal linking the Nile River to the Red Sea.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Alexander the great

    Defeated Persian Empire. Brought Greek art and culture into contact with foreign lands.
  • 500 BCE

    Hanna

    Sailed around the western coast of Africa.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 100 BCE

    Camel Saddle

  • 206 BCE

    Cloves

    The trade of cloves started during this time period. Han dynasty in China kept cloves in the mouths of people while talking to the king.
  • Period: 206 BCE to 23

    Document Chuien Han Shu

    Discussed trade with Iran.
  • Period: 200 BCE to 150 BCE

    Egyptian Faience Bowl

    Made for funeral purposes.
  • Period: 200 BCE to 200

    Rouletted Pottery

  • 106 BCE

    Zhang Qian

    Trade along the routes first crossed, known as the "Silk Road".
  • 64 BCE

    Strabo the Geographer was Born

    Was a Greek traveler.
  • Period: 1 CE to 100

    Phoenician Ships

    Ships found in the Labanese City of Sidon in the first century CE.
  • Period: 1 CE to 100

    Millet

    Spread to shores of Indian Ocean.
  • 70

    Periplus of the Erythraen Sea

    Written form city of Alexandria.
  • 100

    Pepper

    Created in India.
  • Period: 100 to 200

    Pearls

    Favored by wealthy Romans
  • Period: 150 to 191

    Kushan Gold Coin

    Example of how trades resulted in blending of religious ideas.
  • Period: 201 to 300

    Silk

    Discovered in ancient Loulan.
  • 476

    Fall of Roman Empire