Periplus

Indian Ocean Trade During the Classical Period

By awicks002
  • 1000 BCE

    Settlement

    Aryan people begin to settle in India.
  • 900 BCE

    Greek "Dark Ages"

    Dark Ages after Dorian invasions
  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Rise of the Greek

    The Greek rise as well as the economy
  • Kamal
    771 BCE

    Kamal

    The Kamal is a navigation device used by Arab navigators in the Indian Ocean to determine the latitude of sea.
  • 700 BCE

    Connections

    Greek centers had trading connections around the Black Sea.
  • 698 BCE

    Pharaoh Necho

    Necho II began building a canal linking the Nile River and the Red Sea
  • 695 BCE

    Poetry

    Two great poems Iliad and Odyssey which were about the Mycenean war with Troy.
  • 610 BCE

    Bananas

    From the origins in Madagascar bananas spread as a crop into China.
  • Period: 610 BCE to 595

    Bananas

    From the origins in Madagascar bananas spread as a crop into China.
  • 600 BCE

    Growth

    Solon set up social protest to establish laws that eased burden of debt on farmers.
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucianism

    Life of Confucius in China, and the beginning of the philosophy of Confucianism.
  • Period: 542 BCE to 483

    Religion

    Life of the Buddha
  • 515 BCE

    Plant

    The indigo plant was first cultivated for dye in India and was used for Chinese silks.
  • 500 BCE

    Defeat

    Greek defeated Persia and Athenian empire spread
  • 450 BCE

    Phoenicians

    The Phoenicians created letters of the alphabet which was passed on to the Greek.
  • 431 BCE

    WAR

    Peloponnesian War
  • 334 BCE

    Time to fall

    Alexander defeats Persians, which ends the Persian empire.
  • 300 BCE

    Trading of Goods

    A trading system was in place across the Afro-Eurasian continents by the last centuries.