Indian Ocean Trade

By Saru123
  • 3000 BCE

    Origins of Indian Ocean trade routes

  • 3000 BCE

    First interactions

    Travelers in small canoes and rafts moved back and forth trading ports along coastlines from Mesopotamia and the Indus valley.
  • 2500 BCE

    Harrapan and Mesopotamian trade

    They used plank-built watercraft with a single mast. Traded agricultural goods, art, and copper.
  • 500 BCE

    Greek Traders

    Traded ceramics, glassware, wine, gold, and olive oil
  • 130 BCE

    Seleucids, Romans, Pandians, Guptas, and Hans all traded

    Large trade network of olive oil, silver, gold, spices, silk
  • 400

    Medieval Trade

    Ummayad and Abbasids controled western trade meanwhile in the far east the Tang and Song controlled trade along the silk roads and to Melaka. In the center several major empires blossomed on the trade such as the Cholas in southern India, Srivijaya Empire and Angkor.
  • Period: 750 to 1350

    Dominance of muslim merchants in indian ocean trade

  • Period: 1430 to

    The Islamic empires and European colonialism begginings, China's still chillin

    Colonialism, and other maritime empire outposts started cropping starting the precedent for colonialism.

  • East india companies and the beggining of colonialism