Indian Ocean trade never truly disappeared. Beginning in the 15th century, however, with the expansion of European exploration and China’s withdrawal from international affairs, the world’s economic ...

Written over 1,900 years ago and more than 1,400 years before Vasco da Gama “discovered” the trade route to India, the Periplus is a window into the diverse world of the Indian Ocean.

Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 08 / 170817141533.htm ...

July 20, 2021 — The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50-60 years. While temperature changes basin-wide can be unequivocally attributed to human ...

Maritime trade in the Indian Ocean appears to have intensified in the medieval period, leading to an increase in such transfers. The results of this study also confirm that there were multiple ...

This enabled ancient Indonesian tribes to cross the Indian Ocean to migrate to Madagascar in 1 CE. In the 2nd Century BCE, Eudoxus of Cyzicus was the first Greek to traverse the Indian Ocean.

The seasonal nature of Indian Ocean trade meant that ships arrived amid rough seas and were often beached, rather than moored in quays. Stitched ships, being more resilient to such conditions ...

Early Indian Ocean trade ... findings offer important insights and additional evidence of the contact and interactions between the peoples of the Indian Ocean world. Just like today, ancient ...