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Indian Ocean

The warm third-largest ocean, whose monsoon winds carried trade between Africa, Arabia, India and China for millennia.

Dated events and their evidence

• 100 BCE mainstream
  monsoon-driven trade links Africa, Arabia and India source
• 1498 CE mainstream
  Vasco da Gama opens the sea route from Europe to India source
• 1869 CE mainstream
  the Suez Canal links it to the Mediterranean source

Where

25.0000° S, 78.0000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_trade
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal

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