During the years between 650 an 1750 AD, the Indian Ocean saw changes and continuities in commerce through new methods of transportation, new commodities, and new European involvement. Innovation in transportation, new and unexpected commodities, and the Europeans spurned change in commerce in the Indian Ocean region from 650 to 1750 AD. Change in commerce in the Indian Ocean began with the invention of the Dhow. An Arab invention, Dhows are ships whose sails can maximize monsoon winds that are often found in the Indian Ocean. This enabled trade that region to occur faster than ever before.
In 1811, Europeans began to develop port facility in the area and receive fresh produce. Port functions grew by 1826 and became one of the busiest seaports in Australia. Due to this, it attracted industry to the area. Port facilities lead to population growth as it was close to the city and markets and continued to attract industry to the area. Industry transport grew, in 1870 rail goods yard built to handle increasing transport requirements of industry.
Both of these events mark major turning points in the Western World. They helped bring the Western World back to the top of the world, and helped it regain its influence over the rest of the world. Many events led to the start of the Renaissance for at the time Europe was still in turmoil from Feudalism and the Black Plague. Primarily, the Renaissance began in the Italian city-states for many reasons. The Italian city- states would not under feudal control at the time the Renaissance began, so they were allowed them greater cultural and economic freedom.
Britain also established companies in India and Africa. Due to the trade between the colonies via the companies, Britain started to generate a large consistent income. Mercantilist policies were introduced shortly after 1680. A factor that led to Britain gaining its reputation and wealth were that it established a strong connection with its merchants. The merchants were happy to trade with Britain as a policy of Britain was to protect its clients.
Human species developed techniques and organized their societies to live more comfortably and stably. And these societies have interacted with one another, using routes in various ways to promote their standard of lives in more efficiently. The usage of these routes varied from trade to war, and trans-Saharan caravan routes is not an exception. Between about 300B.C.E to 100 C.E, Nubian kingdom and Moroë used trans-Saharan caravan routes to trade with India, Arabia and Mediterranean countries. Mineral wealth flowed out of Moroë and luxury goods in Arabia and India flowed in When Roman Empire thrived, trans-Saharan route revived as one of the most important trading routes connecting Africa and Eurasia.
Classical societies traded in the Silk Road because it was the fastest and cheapest to do. Their marine trading was not as developed. But when they collapsed the Silk Road trading dropped and marine trading picked up. The Indian Ocean Basin trade took its place because it was faster and cheaper, as boats and marine technology improved. When the Mongols came to power, the Silk Road trading increased because the Mongols supported for they never had to deal with marine trading.
Indian ocean trade For the better part of the seven hundred years these merchant ships were to free to sail to any sea šwithout the need for pretection from the navy. Many more people participated in the indian ocean trade than the silk road mainly even though Europeans didn’t enter the trading in the Indian ocean. People would act as middle men where they would buy stuff to sell it more than they bought it for and even buy new items to sell later. Another factor about why the continuities of the trade lasted is that with seaborne trade you can bring large cargo of goods such as cotton cloths or timbers that you normaly cant strap on a camel or any other domestic animals at that time. Not just products made their way across the eastern hemisphere but also ideas and new technology thanks to the indian ocean trade.
This opened up trade routes between Asia and Europe with most of the goods originating or passing through Southeast Asia. Along with the exchange routes came more people and ideas into Southeast Asia and ultimately increased the cultural and economical development. (Upshur, 2002) The second contributing factor was the trade policy of Southern Sung China. The Chinese government needed revenue to support their efforts to please the northern invaders. For this reason the Chinese government encouraged exporting of porcelain and other goods to Southeast Asia.
It could be used to show how certain people under these rulers and how they benefited their rulers' search for conquest but took away everything from the natives. The Portuguese Map of Africa (Document 3) shows that they had a lot of land that they occupied along the coast. This only shows the great conquests of the Portuguese, which would make this biased, and since the mapmaker did not know what was in inland Africa, it was all just what he thought would be seen. This could be because no Europeans had been there. Also there were some
Access to commodities such as fabrics, spices, and gold motivated a European quest for a faster means to reach South Asia. It was this search that led the Portuguese down the coast of West Africa to Sierra Leone in 1460. Due to several technological and cultural advantages, Portugal dominated world trade for nearly 200 years, from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries. While, in the fifteenth century, the rest of Europe was decimated by the Black Plague, Portugal was protected by its physical isolation. Additionally, Portugal had an unusually strong national identity, due to its natural geographic borders, allowing the pooling of the considerable economic resources necessary to fund these ambitious explorations.