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1) How the Indian Ocean was neglected in world history studies until historian Fernand Braudel brought attention to it. The ocean spans East Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and Australia.
2) Key geographical features like the monsoon system and Arabian Gulf that influenced trade and civilization in the region. Sites in Oman like Magan, Bat and the lost city of Ubar were important trading hubs dating back to the Bronze Age.
3) The rise and fall of powers like the Portuguese who controlled trade routes. Omani cities like Muscat
All the mentioned places are most favorite spot for tourism, but there are lots of castles and mountains which can be visited as well. So make your trip to Oman in the coming vacation and enjoy the part of Arabian Sultanate.
All the mentioned places are most favorite spot for tourism, but there are lots of castles and mountains which can be visited as well. So make your trip to Oman in the coming vacation and enjoy the part of Arabian Sultanate.
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Too often our own ego-centric interest becomes a source of our own ignorance.
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To cover over 2 millennium of maritime trade, in the Middle East, India, SE Asia and China under 50 slides, can only give us the briefest gleam into the course of history. To get the benefit of the slides, you will need to set aside some time to read through the contents. Our perceptions on the maritime contacts are changing too. The discovery in particular of dozens of ancient shipwrecks in Southeast Asia has built up a picture of the historic trade and the technology.
The voyage of the Chinese mariner Zhenghe and his voyages to the Indian Ocean. Until recently it is relatively unknown in the West. When I get started, I found that these spectacular Zhenghe's voyages were only the last brilliant chapter of the Asian Maritime book, before the arrival of the European by sea. As I dig deeper, I discovered dozen of shipwrecks and the achievements went far into the past.
The Srivijaya was the Asian equivalent of the European maritime power, like Venice. Their power was based on the control of the sea-lanes, with a series of ports and they rarely ventured into the hinterlands. This and other powers in Southeast Asia were in turned seeded by an even older maritime power in south India, the Cholas Empire. From India the journey took me further west to the lands of the Arab and Persian, the maritime world of Sinbad the Sailor. Until the arrival of the European and before the development of the Chinese maritime network in the Tang Dynasty, Arab dhows sailed across the ocean and the seas from ends to ends, linking distance people of China to the European. At last, I arrived in Alexandria, the ancient trading hub of the Mediterranean world, a bridge between the East with the West.
In the slides, I have included three incidences of overseas traders being massacred in Chinese history. This is not to put black marks on an otherwise successful Chinese civilisation, but to remind ourselves how history have been sanctified one way or another. History should be a honest account of the past, without distortions and omissions. History is the witness. I hope in these few slides, would help to understanding an aspect of human civilization on Earth. Too often our own ego-centric interest becomes a source of our own ignorance.
In the Autumn, around 825 AD, an Arabic dhow left the port of Guangzhou (Canton) China and set sail to Gulf area for the Abbasid Empire. The ship was built in Oman and manned by an international crew, including Chinese and Arabs, for a 5 months voyage, leaden with ceramics and treasures. After 2 to 3 weeks later, the ship reached the Java Sea sailing though the treacherous waters around the island of Belitung. It was heading toward Java to pick up some South Sea spices, in exchange of some of its ceramic bowls made in China. It was near the Belitung Island that the heavily laden dhow met its fate and sank with its precious cargo. The wreck laid beneath the waves undisturbed for over 12 centuries, before discovered by a local fishermen diving for sea cucumbers. The wreck was found in shallow water less than 3 km from land and was vulnerable to looting. A team of divers and archaeologists were assembled for the excavation of the wreck. From the wreck, the ship tells a story of China during the 9C and the flourishing maritime trades between China and the countries all along its route to the Middle East.
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2. Indian Ocean Q) For what reason is the Indian Ocean neglected in standard studies of world history for decades? A) This reason is… because the Indian Ocean is a body of water, of course, it has not been a host to a civilization. It all started from a historian named, FERNAND BRAUDEL, his first viewing was the Mediterranean Sea. The Indian Ocean stretches in a giant arc from east Africa to Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, andAustralia. The Indian Ocean covers 68,536,000 kilometers or 26,461,897 square miles. It covers 20 % of the world’s ocean surface.
3. Monsoon Cycle The world’s largest monsoon system, powered by a seasonal warming and cooling of large air masses takes place in the Indian Ocean. Monsoon is a word meaning season of winds. From the Arabic word (mawsin) The wind patterns change and shift during winter and summer Southwest for half of the year and the other half Northeast. Three factors that cause the monsoon: The difference in the way land and water absorb the sun’s heat. The effect of the earth’s rotation on the atmosphere The storage and release of energy as water changes from liquid to water.
4. Arabian (Persian) Gulf It was very important to the traders of the ancient era Although it was once a river connected to the Tigris and Euphrates, over a period of 15,000 years the Arabian Persian gulf widened and deepened until it reached its current size Melting polar ice caps at the end of the last ice age caused flooding that filled the gulf.
5. Strait of Hormuz At the entry of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, a narrow outlet only 48 kilometers (30 miles) wide leads to the gulf of Oman and The Arabian Sea, knows as the Strait of Hormuz. To its north, the Arabian Gulf extends northwest about 965 kilometers to the (Shatt al Arab), a river formed where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join together. The Strait of Hormuz is now the ONLY outlet for the salty water of the gulf to be gradually replaced by Indian Ocean water. The Strait of Hormuz has also been the ONLY outlet of ships to reach the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean beyond.
6. Magan & The Magan Boat It is located in what is now Oman Is the ancient name for a region linked by trade with the Mesopotamia and the Indus valley. Magan was also an important trading stop on the way from Mesopotamia to Meluhha, or the Indus valley Ships from Magan, Meluhha, and the port of Dilmun carried items like wood, copper, carnelian, onions, and spices. And they traded them for Mesopotamian products such as wool, grain, paint, leather and oil. A type of boat called a Magan was made with reeds, coated with bitumen and clay, and fitted with a mast and a square sail and steering oars was used for trading on the Arabian Gulf.
7. Beehive Tombs and Circular Towers of Bat Near the present day town of bat, archeologists have found well-preserved cemeteries that contain Bronze Age “beehive” shaped tombs. They also found the remains of towers, that they believe is from the 3rd millennium BCE which the Magan boat was made in that period. Tombs found in the hills and high valleys north of Bat show the ongoing development during the Bronze Age. The northernmost tombs date from 3000-2000 BCE and are similar that those appearing further south and dating from 2600-2000 BCE. An unusual feature in these towers is an inner circular wall in one of the towers, which is not found in any other place. Trenches connected to these towers could mean that they were part of an irrigation system.
8. Copper Metals such as copper were very important to ancient civilizations, allowing them to make tools, weapons, sculptures and jewelry Craftsmen mixed it with other material such as arsenic, which made it harder and more durable As early as around 2750 BCE, archeological evidence shows that these regions began to import their copper from Oman.
9. The lost caravan city The green areas are limestone rock on the surface. The white stripe is a dry stream bed. Near the center of the image is a place archeologists and historians have been seeking for many years, a lost Caravan city called UBAR Scientists believe that this is where the city must have been The main finds at the site, however, were the remains of walls and towers from a large fortress. The walls had partly collapsed into a deep hole The caravan city had a good supply of water under it The limestone formations form sinkholes that swallow whatever is above them. The archeologists found the collapsed walls in the depression formed by the sinkhole, which must have been deeper long ago. Ubar is the site that historians believe may be a city mentioned in the holy book of Islam, the Qur’an
10. Kamal-navigational tool The Kamal is a simple navigation device used by Arab navigators in the Indian Ocean since ancient times. It consists of a small, rectangular card with knotted cord passed through it The purpose of the Kamal was to determine the distance between the horizon and a particular star at the same time each night. An alternative –or the original- method for the same purpose involved the use of fingers held parallel to the horizon A navigator would hold the card at a measured distance from his face by means of a series of knots in the cord attached to the card. The Kamal, or measurement with the fingers, was especially well suited to crossing the Indian ocean on the monsoon wind. The pilot’s job was to aim for certain latitude where he knew the city was, in this way the knots in the cord would delineate the latitude needed to reach a series of specific places.
11. Frankincense and Myrrh This Bronze container from southwestern Arabia was used for burning incense It is decorated with a crescent moon, snakes, and a type of wild mountain goat called an ibex, all symbols of ancient Arabian gods Frankincense and myrrh both types of incense that release a pleasing aroma when burned, were an important part of religious rituals in cultures across the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean and the near east. Frankincense and myrrh are the dried sap of trees that grow exclusively in southern Arabia, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The trade route knows as the incense road, went as far north as the Mediterranean port city of Gaza. As a result the region became known as Arabia Felix, meaning “Arabia the blessed,” or “Happy Arabia.”
12. Scylax of Caryanda Scylax of Caryanda made a voyage into the Indian Ocean from 510-515 BCE He went exploring in the service of king Darius of Persia (528-468 BCE), who had heard of the riches of India and wanted to discover the mouth of the Indus river. Scylax reached Harmozeia in the Arabian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, and then crossed over to Oman, near Maka, and sailed along the southern shore of the Arabian Peninsula. He was famous for this voyage. He brought news of these regions that encouraged trade expeditions. Scylax later wrote a handbook for mariners.
14. Natural History by Pliny the Elder There is no country in the world that produces frankincense except Arabia and indeed not the whole of that. This text provides evidence of trade between the Roman Empire and the Arabian Peninsula. It is taken from the famous encyclopedia Natural History. Arabia’s precious trees earned it the nickname Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, and allowed it dominate the incense road, a trade route that stretched through the peninsula to Rome and Asia.
15. Medieval era, 300-1500 CESohar The coastal city of Sohar in today’s Oman is closely associated with trade in the Indian Ocean. It is mentioned as the birthplace of Sindbad the Sailor, whether he was a real character or not. Sohar was an important port on the strait of hormuz that was described in the work of Muslim historians The geographer-historian Yaqut al Hamawi stated that sohar was named after the descendants of prophet Noah It is the oldest city in Oman and the wealthiest one Sohar was also a source of copper, and the fact that it had a good harbor and strategic location made it a prosperous place between 8th and 15th centuries.
16. Arab Dhow The dhow was the most typical ship of western Indian Ocean, and the one most commonly used by Arab traders during the Middle Ages. Each different size is called by a different name in the region. The dhow is known for its triangular sail. Many had one large sail but many others had more than one. They were made of tropical woods such as teak which grows in India and does not rot easily in salt water. They were not nailed together; instead they were sewn, or lashed together with coir (coconut fiber) ropes. A lased ship would not break up easily on shoals, but flex under the strain It was double ended instead of having a square stern and a pointed end
17. Ibn Batutta Their principle food is rice imported from India. Its population consists of merchants that live entirely on trade When a vessel arrives they take the master, captain and writer in procession to the sultan’s palace and entertain the entire ship’s company for three days in order to gain the goodwill of the ship masters The coco-palm is one of the strangest trees and it looks exactly like a date palm. The sultan of Oman is an Arab of the tribe of Azd, and is called Abu Muhammad, which is the title given to every sultan who governs Oman Ibn Batutta continued on into the Arabian Gulf and onto Makka for another pilgrimage journey, probably in the year 1333CE.
18. The island of Zanzibar It is an island in the Indian Ocean ~30km (20) miles off the east African coast. Zanzibar is a large coral island ~ 1,660sq km in size Its climates are affected by the monsoon cycles It was originally covered in tropical forests Zanzibar may have gotten its name from the Persians When Arabic traders visited they spread the Arabic language
19. Muscat, the sultanate of Oman The Portuguese recognized Muscat’s strategic location near the chokepoint of trade from the Arabian Gulf, which linked the Indian Ocean to the eastern Mediterranean sea. In1507 they invaded the gulf of Oman under Alfonso de Albuquerque The Portuguese won the battle Their power lasted for more than a century In 1624, imam nasir al yaribi was elected to power Oman Saif bin sultan, imam’s son led his army to defeat the Portuguese and return Muscat to Omani control In 1749, the Abu Sa’id Dynasty was established and continues to rule Oman till today.
20. Ahmed Ibn Majid He was born in Oman in1432 and spent his life sailing around the costs of Africa and Asia and writing about the Indian Ocean. In 1490 he wrote his most important book, “the book of useful information of the principles and rules of navigation” In all he wrote over 40 books
21. Industrial And imperial EraMuscat The city was densely populated Multi-religious and multi-ethnic Muscat was one of the three important trading centers that reflected Omani Interests in region. The city was the central rise of the Zanzibar economic success. It was knows for supreme in trade and military power
22. Zanzibar In the 17th century the city came under the power of the sultanate of Oman, which developed economy of trade. Portuguese at that point were totally expelled from the city Omani Arabs established trading posts in Zanzibar The British empire gradually took over Zanzibar
23. ModernizationSultan Qaboos Grand mosque carpet and Chandelier Many people think that it is the best buildings in the whole of sultanate of Oman He proposed the idea in 1992 It started in 1995 The mosque was done in 2001 The carpet took 4 years to produce The chandelier weighs almost more than 8.5 tons.