INDIAN OCEAN MARITIME SYSTEM 2008 CCOT

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Directions: make a CCOT outline for this essay which asks you to analyze the continuities and
Changes in the IOMS from 600 CE to 1750 CE. (The last two time periods are not in the essay).
500 CE to 1000CE

(some trade)

1000-1450 huge increase in trade

1450-1750 European presence begins; by 1750 imperialism is underway

Portugal est. coastal settlements in Africa by 1450s and coastal settlements India 1500s;
The Dutch established a colonial presence in the Spice Islands (Indonesia)

Excerpt from Mr. Cummings golden charts

1450-1750

Neolithic Era,
1000-1450
Classical Era,
-Second part of the
& up to 1000CE Post-Classical era
>Some
IOMS trade
b/w Arabs, India,
SE Asia, Africa
(Red Sea)

Trade among diverse

people: (India, Arabs,
East Africa, SE Asia,
East Asia) HUGE
INCREASE in TRADE

>reason:
demand for
Copper, ivory,
pearls

>regional merchants
trade along monsoon
wind routes

>Cultural
Diffusion:
Math, zero, pi
Infinity from
India Arabia
>port cities dev.
bilingual,
bicultural
>CD: naval
technology

Continuity: trade
among diverse
people
>CHANGE: Portugal
est. coastal enclaves
in India

>Mughal rule:
gunpowder empires
>Europeans desired
>Swahili develops in
spices from IOMS
city-states of East
>France est. trade
Africa
w/India, but soon
>Zheng He (early 1400s) defeated by Britain
> technology: IOMS
Battle of Plassey
dhow
>British East India
>Before European
Company starts
hegemony
tax collection,
>Muslim period begins
but regional
w/Delhi sultanate
economic power
>India imports gold
declines due to
>India exports cotton,
beginning of
and crops
European hegemony

IOMS trade
1750-1914
1914-present
Continuity: trade
among diverse
people
Huge change!!:
BRITISH
IMPERIALISM
& EUROPEAN
HEGEMONY
decline of
regional
economic power

Continuity: trade
among diverse
people, add multinational corporations
to trade patterns
changes impacted
by:
-trade with Asian Tigers
-WWIItrade disrupted
-decolonization
-Nehrus mixed economy
& non-alignment
Prosperity
-oil exports from Middle
East (OPEC)
-Green Revolution: more
food exported from India
-Today, many countries
in Southeast Asia and
South Asia are experiencing economic growth.

Directions: Turn this paper sideways. Draw the CCOT blank timeline; label it with four lines.
Below it write LGC and continuity. Write in key words to help you explain changes, continuity,
and LGC. You must include 6-8 historical pieces of evidence that are explained. Be sure to
explain WHY changes and continuities occurred.