Timeline on the Indian Ocean Trade Route By wangchunyan 330 BCE Archaemenid Empire 300 BCE Beginning of Trade 300 BCE Goods traded 185 BCE Mauryan Empire 200 Religion 220 Han Dynasty 476 Roman Empire 618 Tang Dynasty 661 Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates 700 Islam 960 Song Dynastly 1200 Angkor Civilization 1279 The Chola Empire 1498 The Portuguese 1602 Dutch East India Company 1680 British East India Company