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

  • Dutch East India Company

  • British East India Company