The Indian Ocean Trade

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For thousands of years, before Europeans crossed the Atlantic or steamships crossed the seas, the Indian Ocean connected the known world. Merchants riding the monsoon winds carried spices, silk, gold, ivory, porcelain, and ideas between Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and China. Along these routes, religions spread, empires rose, and some of the world’s richest trading cities emerged. It was a commercial system that shaped history long before the modern global economy existed. Learn more about the Indian Ocean Trade and how it helped forge civilizations on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Honor the past by uncovering its stories at Newspapers.com Promo Code EVERYTHINGEVERWHERE Samsara Don’t wait for the next accident to take action. Head to Samsara.com/EVERYTHING ButcherBox Get your choice between chicken breast or top sirloin for a year OR ground beef for life, PLUS $20 off when you go to ButcherBox.com/everything Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Save 50% on Unlimited premium wireless plans starting at $15/month at MintMobile.com/EED Audible Listen to Project Hail Mary Audible.com/hailmary Fast Growing Trees Get 20% off your first purchase when using the code DAILY at checkout at fastgrowingtrees.com/daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Ds7Rx7jvPJ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	For thousands of years before Europeans crossed the Atlantic or steamships cross the seas,
0:05.3	the Indian oceans connected much of the known world. Merchants riding the monsoon winds carried spices,
0:11.1	silk, gold, ivory, porcelain, and ideas between Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and China.
0:18.5	Along these routes, religion spread, empires rose, and some of the world's
0:22.7	richest trading cities emerged. It was a commercial system that shaped history long before the
0:28.2	modern global economy existed. Learn more about the Indian Ocean trade and how to help forge civilizations
0:34.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:36.8	Music civilizations on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:51.9	Some follow the noise.
0:54.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:58.1	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
1:02.9	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
1:05.4	there's a money side to every story.
1:09.6	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
1:11.8	Get the money side of the story.
1:14.8	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
1:21.5	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
1:22.1	Mom!
1:24.2	Up the stairs for something.
1:28.3	Back down, no idea what I went up for.
1:30.4	Mom, what's for dinner?
1:33.7	Chop, sizzle, done.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 1 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gary Arndt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gary Arndt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.