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First routes of the Indian river transform for trade and the first interaction is established
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Fishing boats are used to set sail
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Peppercorns were used for both, cooking and medicines.
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The Phoencians dominated the trade and travel, living in the coastal regions of Syria and Lebanon. Specializing in making glass products. They traded things such as wine, olives, wheat, spices, metal, and cedar wood.
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Aryan people settle in India
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The Indigo plant was found in documents dating back to the 7th Century BCE. Indigo was used in Chinese silks, paints, and dyes in India, Greece, and Roman times.
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China was the first to introduce silk. This was one of many goods traded along the "silk road", which connected the Mediterranean, the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Silk was used as trade and as a form of currency.
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The Greek coin was introduced as currency
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The kamal was a navigation device used by Arab travelers. "An alternative--or the original--method for the same purpose involved the use of fingers held parallel to the horizon."
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The Roman Republic begins
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Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism spread across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia
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Developed in Northern Arabia
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Nearchus, Captain of Alexander the Great's ship writes of his voyage of the Indus River, following the coastline to the Straight of Hormuz and up to the Persian Gulf to the Tigris River.
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Indian emperor who spread the word of Buddhism. Ashoka encouraged trade and allowed trading with Southeast Asia and West Asia
