Indian ocean maritime trade
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
Indian ocean maritime trade
Traded goods
• slaves, ivory, gold, iron from Africa
• porcelain from china
• pottery from Burma
• cloth from Indian
Trade routes
• major router between East Africa and Asia
• reason possible because of the monsoons, that blew north-northeast from December
february and south- southwest from April to September
• traded with china through intermediary merchants (Arab, Indian, Malayan, Indonesian) until around 1400s when the directed trade is established
Significance
• brought prosperity to east Africa through the development of trading networks into the interior of the continent