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The Classical Period: The Indian Ocean Trade Passage

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  • 1000 BCE

    Bananas

    Bananas
    Bananas were cultivated in places like Southeast Asia, then traveled to India, and may have reached Africa by around 1000 BCE.
  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

    From its origins in Southeast Asia, by 1000 BCE, sugar cane had reached India, where it was cultivated on a larger scale. By the end of the Classical Era, sugar was known in Persia as a wonderful luxury for cooking and sweetening.
  • 1000 BCE

    Phoenicians

    The Phoenicians dominated trade and travel during the first millennium BCE. Phoenicians imported and exported items like wine, olives and olive oil, wheat, spices, metals, honey, and cedar wood.
  • 1000 BCE

    Beginning of the Classical Era

    Beginning of the Classical Era
    The Classical Era across the Indian Ocean commenses.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 700 BCE

    Aksum

    The Aksum Kingdom is rich and prosperous in the time they existed. They traded extensively with Greece and other foreign regions. They controlled the African gold and ivory trade.
  • 800 BCE

    Rise of the Nubian Kingdom

    Nubia dominates Egypt and the Zhou Kingdom is over in China.
  • Period: 610 BCE to 595 BCE

    Pharaoh Necho II's reign

    Pharaoh Necho II, who ruled Egypt from 610-595 BCE
  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Buddhism

    Buddhism and the life of Buddha develops in India.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Alexander the Great defeats the Persian Empire

    Over the course of eleven years, Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) and extended Greek control over lands in western Asia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley.
  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius I

    Daruis I rules over the Persian Empire.
  • 500 BCE

    Cinnamon

    Cinnamon
    Cinnamon and cassia arrived in the Gulf of Aden
  • 500 BCE

    Camel Saddles

    The camel saddles were developed in 500 BCE. The saddles were used between 500-100BCE and were a vital invention during this era. It allowed riders to sit on a camels hump without hurting the camel of the human.
  • 206 BCE

    Cloves

    Cloves
    Cloves are dried flower buds taken from the tropical evergreen clove tree, which can grow up to 30 feet tall and is native to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
  • 100 BCE

    Pearls

    Pearls become a popular jewelry worn among the Romans. Pearls, which are produced by oysters and must be fished out of the sea, were a favorite of wealthy Romans.
  • Period: 64 BCE to 23 BCE

    Strabo the Geographer

    Strabo was a Greek traveler and the author of the famous work Geography. He was probably born at Amasia, Greece, in 64 BCE and died in about 23 CE. He was a scholar who traveled to read the scholarship of others, and from places like the library at Alexandria, Egypt, he was able to collect and compare many sources in order to get a picture of the best state of knowledge about the known world.
  • Period: 31 BCE to 14 BCE

    Caesar Augustus

    Caesar Augustus (son of Julius Caesar) rules the Roman Empire.