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Indian Ocean trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history. Long-distance maritime trade by Austronesian trade ships and South Asian and Middle Eastern dhows , made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Southeast Asia to East and Southeast Africa , and the East ...
Indian Ocean - Trade, Transportation, Routes: The economic development of the littoral countries since the mid-20th century has been uneven, following attainment of independence by most states. The formation of regional trade blocs led to an increase in sea trade and the development of new products.
Three powerful Muslim empires ringed the Indian Ocean. The Ottoman Empire in the west occupied the territory once held by the Byzantine Empire and controlled the Red Sea trade route linking Southeast Asia with Venice. In the center was the Safavid Dynasty, who controlled the Persian Gulf Route.
The Indian Ocean trade routes connected Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa, beginning at least as early as the third century BCE. This vast international web of routes linked those areas as well as East Asia (particularly China ).
The Indian Ocean system developed out of the gradual integration of earlier regional networks. By 3000 B.C., travelers in small canoes and rafts moved between towns and trading ports along coastlines from Arabia to the Indian subcontinent.
In this masterpiece, Suma Oriental, Pires describes his journey from Egypt to the Malay Archipelago and provides a detailed historical and ethnographic account of the Indian Ocean emporium trade.
From 1200 to 1450, the Indian Ocean was the center of world trade. Many different trade routes crossed its waves. They linked the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Peoples and languages mixed in the great trading cities built on the Indian Ocean’s shores.
Indian Ocean Trade refers to the extensive maritime trade networks that connected various civilizations across the Indian Ocean, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas from ancient times through the early modern period.
The Indian Ocean trade network refers to the extensive system of maritime trade routes connecting various regions around the Indian Ocean, facilitating the exchange of goods, culture, and ideas from as early as the 1st century CE.
This chapter explores the evolution of Indo-European trade. The discussion leads to larger questions about the meaning of the trade for Indian history. The Indian Ocean world at 1500. Situated in the middle of the “great arc” of Asian trade, India is geographically well placed to trade with both sides of the Indian Ocean.