The Indian Ocean Trade Networks

Before the arrival of europeans, there were extensive networks that extended from the arabian peninsula to south and southeast asia. There was an enormous amount of local knowledge about maritime transport in the monsoon agentso there was actually transferable scales in maritime scales required. So this indian ocean economy became a whole set of skills not only for these ports but also for people all over the world who traded with each other. And so that is quite a significant factor an oild and tend to be very central to the story that i tell,. precisely for those reasons, to day's global trading order that has so many in the west so worried is itself.