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India Ocean Trade

  • Period: 550 BCE to 300 BCE

    Achaemenid Empire in Persia

    Persian has many precious metals to trade golds copper and silver were all assessable to the nation. The empire made trade easier and more profitable by digging a canal between the Nile river and the Red Sea
  • Period: 324 BCE to 185 BCE

    Mauryan Empire

    India
  • Period: 202 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty

    Chinese trade spices and silk
  • Period: 33 BCE to 476

    Roman Empire

    Traded silk China, coins from Rome along with Indian and Persian jewels on the Mediterranean.
  • Period: 3 BCE to 1279

    The Chola Empire

    This southern India nation had gold luxury textiles and jewels to off to those is search of exotic ware.
  • Period: 200 to 500 BCE

    Classical period of trade

    4th century BCE–3rd century CE During the classical period trade goods were not he only thing exchanged. The merchants were a major source of religious export including Islam ,Jainism ,Buddhism.
  • Period: 400 to 1450

    The Medieval trade era

    Steady trade between Arab and Chinese merchants allowed many empires to expand.
  • Period: 618 to 907

    Tang Dynasty

    The Tang dynasties in China saw need to form additional trade ties allies to the land-based Silk Roads. To support this relationship they joined ocean trading.
  • Period: 661 to 750

    Umayyad Dynasty

    This wealth Islamic empire trade with Ma India and China. They exported precious stones textiles and spices, to the Muslims. The Muslims had coral ivory, and Byzantine to offer.
  • Period: 700 to 1300

    Srivijaya Empire

    This nation tax any and every trade ship that passed though their strip of ocean Trade needed to travel the narrow Malacca Strait and the Srivijaya Empire took full advantage of the situation.
  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Abbasid

    The Prophet Muhammad used this route to bring luxury good to affluent Muslim cities. This Arabian Peninsula granted easy western travel to the trade routes.
  • Period: 800 to 1327

    Angkor civilization

    This nation was located based far inland. Traveling along the Mekong River gave rout to the Indian ocean for Cambodia. The monsoon winds made this route ideal
  • Period: 960 to 1279

    Song Dynasty

    To protect their interest in the trade industry Song Dynasties developed a strong maritime military to protect the eastern trade route against pirates..
  • 1405

    China goes in search

    In the past China had relied on their own silk Road for trade. This all changed when Yongle Emperor of China's new Ming Dynasty sanctioned an expeditions to scout all of the empire's major trading partners around the Indian Ocean. The Ming treasure ships under A traveled as far as East Africa,
  • Period: 1460 to 1524

    Portuguese

    After seeing the high demand for Asian luxury goods the Portuguese want a pieces of booming industry on trade route. When they realized they had nothing to barter the Portuguese joined the ocean market as pirates. Armed with canons ports from South china to India fell victim.
  • VOC pirates

    Just like the Portuguese pirates' the Dutch East India Company sought to muscle their way in on the profits of the Oceanic trade route , the VOC seized control over the valuable spice market.
  • Force combine

    The British joined in with their British East India Company, which challenged the VOC Pirates for control of the trade routes.