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Ancient Trade Networks

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Indian Ocean Trade Silk Road Trans Saharan Trade

Achaemenid Persian control of Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean trade routes (c. 550–330 BCE)

550 BCE - 330 BCE

Almoravid Expansion and North African Control of Saharan Routes (c. 1040–1147)

1040 - 1147

Axumite Empire maritime trade across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (c. 1st–7th centuries CE)

50 - 642

Berber Merchant Confederations (Lamtuna, Zenata) and Early Saharan Trade (c. 9th–14th centuries)

757 - 1393

Central Asian political transformations after the Battle of Talas (751–900 CE)

751 - 900

Chera maritime trade networks of Early Historic South India (c. 3rd century BCE–3rd century CE)

300 BCE - 300

Chinese maritime contacts with the Indian Ocean (Han–Tang, c. 1st century BCE–9th century CE)

111 BCE - 907

Decline of overland Silk Road commerce and early modern transitions (15th–18th centuries CE)

1450 - 1799

Development and network of Silk Road caravanserai (6th–14th centuries CE)

580 - 1400

Diffusion of the Dromedary Camel and the Rise of Long-Distance Caravans (c. 3rd–10th centuries)

100 - 1068

Emergence of Swahili trading towns on the East African coast (c. 6th–10th centuries CE)

100 BCE - 1100

European Mapping, Exploration, and Knowledge of Saharan Trade Routes (c. 14th–19th centuries)

1375 - 1858

French Colonial Policies and the Decline of Caravan Trade in the Sahara (c. 1890–1930)

1893 - 1926

Fulani Jihad States and 19th-Century Reorganization of Sahelian Trade (c. 1804–1890)

1804 - 1894

Funan and early Southeast Asian entrepots in Indian Ocean commerce (c. 1st–6th centuries CE)

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