Indian ocean trade: Did you mean...?

The Blue Riband of the Atlantic was the unofficial distinction awarded to the passenger liner achieving the highest average speed on a regular transatlantic crossing. Emerging...

A Nereid (or Aura) riding a horse as she rises from the Ocean. Pentelic marble, c. 380 BCE. By the sculptor Timotheos. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).

Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain by Richard Hingley

Ancient China was often connected to the rest of the world through trade, not only along the famous Silk Road but also via merchant ships that sailed the Indian Ocean, connecting East Asia to the Middle East...

The Portuguese colonised Malacca (modern Melaka) on the southwest coast of the Malay peninsula from 1511 and kept it until 1641 when the Dutch took over. The port controlled the Malay Straits which lead from the Indian Ocean...

Scandinavians from the island of Gotland began to spread throughout the Baltic region along the Russian rivers in the 700s. While the Vikings of Norway and Denmark from the 8th to 11th centuries are widely recognized...

This activity has been designed to fit a 20-30-minute slot for your class and is suitable for both online and classroom teaching. Students have to do a web quest in order to complete a map. It is...

Bas-relief scene, Angkor Wat.

Polynesian navigation of the Pacific Ocean and its settlement began thousands of years ago. The inhabitants of the Pacific islands had been voyaging across vast expanses of ocean water...

The Columbian exchange is a term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972 that is traditionally defined as the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas...