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Traders in small boats moved between trading ports along coastlines from Arabia to the Indian subcontinent.
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Merchants began using the monsoon winds to help them travel. They were able to predicte the pattern of the winds and use the winds to push them along in a faster way.
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Major empires involved in the Indian Ocean trade included the Mauryan Empire in India, the Han Dynasty in China, the Achaemenid Empire in Persia, and the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean.
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Places like Kilwa, Sofala, Mombasa, and Malindi began to get involved in trade on the Idian Ocena. These African city-states exported gold, ivory, and iron to India, Southeast Asia, and China.
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They traded ceramics, glassware, wine, gold, olive oil. In return they imported Indian lime, peach, and various other fruits and used them for medicine.
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A route is developed through the straits of Malacca. This linked the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea.
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Goods were not the only thing that was traded on the Indian Ocean. religions such as Buddism travled from port to port.
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The rise of the Umayyad on the Arabian Peninsula provided a powerful western connection for the trade routes.
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The Song dynasty encourged land based trading on the silk raod as well as marina trading. They also created a powerful imperial navy to control piracy on the eastern end of the route.
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Ahmad Ibn Majid writes a navigational encyclopedia for Indian Ocean sailors
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The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean trade began their time as pirates instead traders. They seized port cities like Calicut on India's west coast and Macau, in southern China. The Portuguese.
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Not all Portuguese were pirates. Vasco da Gama was the first person to sail a Portuguese ship to India to establish a trade network
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The Portuguese use the Phillippines to create a trade network from the Indian Ocean to the New World.
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The Dutch appeared in the Indian Ocean as the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch sought a total monopoly on lucrative spices like nutmeg and mace.
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The British joined in with their British East India Company, this challenged the Dutch who had been controling the trade routes. .
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After the battle of Plassey the British gian territorial power in India and power over the trade routes.
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This navigation tool, called a sextant, was made in the late 18th century. Captain James Cook used it during his third voyage to the Pacific, which included the Indian Ocean.It measures te latitude by measuring the sun's distance from the horizon. It also calculated longitude by measuring the angle between the moon and stars.
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England got alomost half of there tea from India. It was drank by both the rich and poor. The rich drank their tea with fine sugar that was imported and the poor drank their tea with sweet molasses syrup.
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Container Ships are used to carry more goods from around the world. They can be resued many times since they are made of metal.
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System is made up of 25 seismographs and three deep ocean sensors to detect tsunamis.