Indian Ocean Timeline

A. What is the difference between on period and another?

B. Why are time periods named differently on the site from what we call them?

Names:

1. Time Period: 12th century

Country/Region: Mediterranean

Item: Opium

One sentence summary: Opium spread along the Silk Road to China and probably by sea to India, and was popular as a medicine.

2. Time Period: 1299-1922

Country/Region: Ottoman Empire

Item: Ottoman Empire

One sentence summary: The Ottoman empire was an important part of trade.

3. Time Period:  13th -16th century

Country/Region: Europe

Item: Cannon Bearing ships

One sentence summary: Cannons were an important part of Indian Ocean voyages.

4. Time Period:

13th- 16th century

Country/Region: Indies

Item: Kilwa

One sentence summary: Kilwa was an important city and centers of trade on the east African coast.

5. Time Period: 13th century

Country/Region: India

Item: Gujarati traders

One sentence summary: Most Gujarati merchants were Hindu, some Jain, and Muslims were very active in Indian Ocean Trade.

6. Time Period: 14th century

Country/Region: Nanking, China

Item: Blue and white porcelain

One sentence summary: Blue and white porcelain was traded as early as the 17th century since tea drinking was enjoyed.

7. Time Period: 14th century

Country/Region: Malay Peninsula

Item: Strait of Malacca

One sentence summary: Malacca was a gateway to trade and a crossroad of cultures and object of competition for power.

8. Time Period: 14th- 16th century

Country/Region: Portugal/Spain

Item: Carrack or Nao

One sentence summary: Carrack was a favorite type of ship for exploration used by the Spanish and Portuguese.

9. Time Period: 15th- 17th century

Country/Region: India

Item: Ebony

One sentence summary: Ebony was used for a long time in India before the Portuguese began selling Ebony furniture.

10. Time Period: 15th- 16th century

Country/Region: Mediterranean

Item: Caravel

One sentence summary: Caravels were an important ship for exploration and suited to explore estuaries, rivers, and high seas.

11. Time Period: 15th century

Country/Region:

Yemen

Item: Mocha

One sentence summary: The coffee plant was brought to Yemen and then expanded into trade all over.

12. Time Period: 1486

Country/Region: Portugal;

Item: Bartholomeu Dias

One sentence summary: Bartholomeu Dias was the first European to sail around southern tip of Africa.

13. Time Period: 1488

Country/Region: Africa

Item: Cape of Good Hope

One sentence summary: Cape of Good Hope is the Southern most tip that Dias rounded in 1488.

14. Time Period: 1553-1556

Country/Region: Ottoman Empire

Item: Ahmad Ibn Majid

One sentence summary: A typhoon swept city and his fleet to the western coast of India.

15. Time Period: 1493

Country/Region: Europe

Item: Inter Catera of 1493

One sentence summary: The Inter Catera gives rights to Christian nations to claim unclaimed lands.

16. Time Period: 1494

Country/Region: Spain/Portugal

Item: The Treaty of Tordasillas

One sentence summary: Spain and Portugal divided themselves and signed the Treaty of Tordasillas.

17. Time Period: 1497

Country/Region: Portugal

Item: Pepper

One sentence summary:  The pepper trade was important to Europeans during the First Global Era.

18. Time Period: 1498

Country/Region: Portugal

Item: Vasco de Gama

One sentence summary: Vasco De Gama found the vast Indian Ocean trade network.

19. Time Period: 14/15th century

Country/Region: Indonesia

Item: Piggy bank from East India

One sentence summary: Piggy banks were made from unglazed clay teracatta or orange clay (pygg), and were easy to put money in but hard to get money out.

20. Time Period: 1500

Country/Region: Europe

Item: Tea chests

One sentence summary: Tea arrived in pressed blocks used for overland trade, and thrown into Boston Harbor to start American Revolution.

21. Time Period: 16th century

Country/Region: South American Inca to Europe

Item: Silver

One sentence summary: Silver was mined in Inca, and then sent to Europe and from there all over the Indian Ocean.

22. Time Period: 16th century

Country/Region: Maluku Islands to Indian Ocean

Item: Spice trade

One sentence summary: Cloves, nutmeg, and mace were among the most important spices and grew in Maluku Islands but were carried through Indian Ocean.

23. Time Period: 16th century

Country/Region: Mexico

Item: Aztec pouring chocolate

One sentence summary: The Aztecs used chocolate long before the Europeans brought it over.

24. Time Period: 16th century

Country/Region: India/Portugal

Item: Carriera de India

One sentence summary: Carriera de India was a long distance round trip man time route of the Portuguese to India.

25. Time Period: 16th century

Country/Region: Yemen

Item: Aden, Yemen

One sentence summary: Aden was an important port in southwestern Arabia.

26. Time Period: 1500’s

Country/Region: Inca, Maya, Aztec

Item: Maize

One sentence summary: Before Columbus arrived, Maize was an important crop for Inca, Maya, and Aztec and brought to Europe, Asia, and Africa after the Columbian Exchange.

27. Time Period: 1500’s

Country/Region: Indian Ocean

Item: Ceylon

One sentence summary: Ceylon was valued for its strategic location in Indian Ocean, and monopoly supply of cinnamon.

28. Time Period: 1500

Country/Region: Persia

Item: The Safavid Empire

One sentence summary: The Safavid Empire became powerful when they conquered Hormuz from the Portuguese.

29. Time Period: 1500-1800

Country/Region: Persia

Item: Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

One sentence summary: Muscat linked the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, which was important for trade.

30. Time Period: 1510

Country/Region: Americas/Indies

Item: Vanilla

One sentence summary: Vanilla was found in the Indies and the Americas.

31. Time Period: 1516

Country/Region: Hong Kong

Item: Macau

One sentence summary:  Macau became the main trading base in Portugal and gave Portuguese an important position in Far East.

32. Time Period: 1519

Country/Region: Spain

Item: Ferdinand Magellan

One sentence summary: Ferdinand Magellan found the Strait of Malacca.