Week 2 Timeline on the Indian Ocean Trade Route

By cbolt001
  • 1000 BCE

    Start of the Classical Era

  • 1000 BCE

    Goods Shipped

    Bananas; Coconuts; Yams; Sugar Cane
  • 900 BCE

    Kamal

    Used by Arab Navigators to determine latitude.
  • 700 BCE

    Pharaoh Necho II

    Started the project to creating a canal between the Nile and the Arabian Gulf but abandoned the project and instead sent a crew to travel around Africa, returning through the Straits of Gibraltar
  • 600 BCE

    Religious Teachings

    Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism spread across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia.
  • 525 BCE

    Goods Shipped

    Crops such as Sesame and Rice, Cinnamon and Cassia. These items were exported towards the second half of the Classical Era.
  • 510 BCE

    Scylax of Caryanda

    He went exploring on behalf of King Darius of Persia. Scylax wrote a handbook for mariners later in his life.
  • 500 BCE

    Greek and Roman's Started Sailing

  • 500 BCE

    Polaris-North Star

    It was used as a navigation tool.
  • 500 BCE

    Hanno

    Sailed around the western coast of Africa, but returned because he ran out of supplies.
  • 400 BCE

    Isthmus of Kra

    Narrow strip of land that connects the Malay Peninsula to Asia.
  • 400 BCE

    Goods Shipped

    India imported silver, copper and gold.
  • 326 BCE

    Nearchus's Voyage

    He was sent by Alexander the Great to sail from Indus to the Arabian Gulf
  • 300 BCE

    End of the Classical Era

  • 300 BCE

    Sri Lanka

    Linked Eastern and Western parts of the Indian Ocean
  • 45 BCE

    Apostle Paul

    Traveled the Mediterranean spreading Christianity.