Classical Period Trade Timeline

  • 1000 BCE

    Start of Classical Era

  • 1000 BCE

    Bananas

  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

  • 700 BCE

    Indigo Plant

  • 600 BCE

    Silk

  • 600 BCE

    Iron

  • 550 BCE

    Achaemenid Empire

  • 500 BCE

    Saddles

  • 500 BCE

    Cinnamon

  • 324 BCE

    Mauryan Empire

  • 300 BCE

    Frankincense

  • 300 BCE

    Myrrh

  • 206 BCE

    Cloves

  • 202 BCE

    Han Dynasty

  • 100 BCE

    Pearls

  • 100 BCE

    Pepper