10.32 Developments in the Indian Ocean World

Maritime Trade & New Technologies 

• silk roads to sealand

• goods are moving by boat rather than caravan

• moving at an enormous rate east to west

 navigational technology 

• magnetic needle compass

  • chinese invention

  • 1- allowed sailing under cloudy skies when you couldn’t see the stars 

  • 2- Improved map making 

Dhows 

ships with triangular sails sailing in the indian ocean and arabian sea

Lateen 

• triangular shaped sails

Junks 

• found them on the south china sea

• large flat bottom ships (could carry 500 people, 4-6 decks, etc.)

• rectangular shaped sails

Cogs 

• sailing on the atlantic ocean

• single mass & square sail

• used north in Baltic sea and traveled to Medd./Atlantic 

• ship used by Europeans 

Maritime Trade & Cosmopolitan Entrepôts 

caravan cities

long distance trade spon the growth of these cities

Entrepôts 

• Commercial cities that grew out of trading stations at the borders between communities and imports 

• merchants could replenish their goods at these ports when traveling

example of Quilon 

• As sea trade expanded, India became a commercial of cross roads 

• Trading required personal relationships (name drop to make a deal) 

• Goods carried, meeting new people, animals traded –> created commercial and cultural connections 

Maritime Trade & New Technologies 

• ships could move so much more by sea than they could move on land

• used compass to navigate in tough weather to still get goods out

• REVOLUTIONARY

major entrepot hubs

• Alexandria (on Medd.) 

• Quilon (top of Indian sub-continent / bottom of south asia) 

• Melaka (under cambodia) 

• Quanzhou (China)