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greek sailor hippalus identifies ,omsoon winds
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trade routes established between inediterinean & south india.
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In 1400 A.D europeans probably knew less of the globe than they had during the pax Romania
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Also vastly underestinated the size of earth by some 5-10,00 miles.
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After 1453,European access to Indian ocean traderouts was disrupted.
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Arab traders eventually took over conveying goods via the Levant and Venetian merchants to Europe until the rise of the Ottoman Turks cut the route again by 1453.
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3000 BC Minoan civilization the earliest in Europe, develops in Crete
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vasco de gama reached india and europeans became directly involved in indian ocean trade.
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The Abbasids use Alexandria, Damietta, Aden and Siraf as entry ports to India and China.
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Indian exports of spices find mention in the works of Ibn Khurdadhbeh (850), al-Ghafiqi (1150), Ishak bin Imaran (907) and Al Kalkashandi (14th century).[14]