Southernization Group Project Timeline

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  • 2300 BCE

    Cotton was first domesticated in India

  • 2000 BCE

    India made dyeing techniques

  • 321 BCE

    India's search for gold

    India used to trade with Siberia but due to trafficking issues, they started to trade with the Malays
  • 300 BCE

    Malays sailed north to the southern coasts of China and India

  • 100 BCE

    Malays began to deliver cinnamon from South China to East Africa and the Red Sea

  • 100 BCE

    Malay sailors reached the east coast of Africa

  • 1 CE

    Egypt became a market for cotton

  • 1 CE

    India began supplying the Mediterranean with pepper

  • 100

    Demand for textiles in the Mediterranean and East Africa

  • 100

    India made trip by sea to China

    India found their way to China due to their desire for silk, but the trip was slow
  • 300

    India was led to the shores of Africa

  • 300

    Malay sailors began to ride the monsoons

  • 350

    Indians discovered the crystallization of sugar

  • 370

    Fine spices from the Moluccas were important in international trade

    The fine spices were cloves, nutmeg, and mace
  • 400

    India was trading in Southeast Asia

  • 400

    Malays had found 2/3 of the world from Easter Island to East Africa

  • 400

    Malays altered the route to China

    Malays found way to avoid a portage by going around the islands instead of going through them
  • 499

    Indians invented the concept of the number zero

  • 1500

    European ships entered Asian trading ports

  • Moluccas were the only ones to produce the fine spices in commercial quantities until this point

  • India had clothed the world