Indian Ocean Trade Classical Era

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  • 1000 BCE

    Western Asia

    Iron metallurgy is known in western Asia and King David established Jerusalem as capital
  • 800 BCE

    Nubian kingdom

    Rise of Nubian kingdom at Napta
  • 771 BCE

    Zhou Kingdom

    Zhou kingdom ends in China
  • Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE

    700-100 BC

    Askum inked to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade networks by its port city of Adulis. Controlled the profitable African gold and ivory trade.
  • 600 BCE

    Silk

    Silk was introduced to the trade system
  • 600 BCE

    Greek Coin

    Greek coin currency was introduced into the trade syste,
  • Period: 600 BCE to 300 BCE

    Religious Spreading

    Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism spread across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia.
  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Siddhartha

    Life of Siddhartha Gautama and the beginning of the Buddhism as a religion
  • Period: 551 BCE to 30 BCE

    Confucius

    Life of Confucius in China and the beginning of the philosophy of Confucianism
  • 500 BCE

    Cinnamon

    Cinnamon and cassia arrived in the Gulf of Aden on the monsoon winds
  • 465 BCE

    Hanno of Carthage

    Hanno of Carthage explores the West African coast
  • 326 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great sent Nearchus from Indus to the Arabian Gulf
  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    Ptolemaic

    Ptolemaic kings rule Egypt
  • 250 BCE

    Disease

    Disease pathogens ravished Chinese civilization as well. Smallpox probably first arrived in China with the Huns
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty

    Han Dynasty rules in China until Qin emperor unites western China in 221CE
  • 166 BCE

    Smallpox

    When Roman troops moved into Mesopotamia in the second century, a major epidemic of smallpox broke out among the soldiers stationed in Parthia. By 166 B.C.E. it spread across much of the Roman Empire, reaching the city of Rome itself.
  • Period: 31 BCE to 14

    Caesar Augustus

    Caesar Augustus rules the Roman Empire
  • Period: 4 to 30

    Christianity

    Birth, life and ministry of Jesus and the beginning of Christianity
  • Period: 45 to 58

    Apostle Paul

    Life of Apostle Paul, who traveled and spread Christianity around the Mediterranean
  • Period: 224 to 651

    Sussanid Empire

    Sussanid Empire rules in Persia until the defeat of Chosroes by the Arab Muslims