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Another big step in trade during this period came from Greek sailors, who knew how to exploit the southwest monsoons in the summer of the Western Indian Ocean. Initially, they used monsoons to go offshore, only to avoid pirates off the coast of Persia. However, around 110 B.C.E., they crossed a dangerous ocean in the summer, straight east across the Arabian Gulf from the entrance to the Red Sea at Bab el Mandeb, to the southernmost point of India and beyond in less than six weeks, 1,000 years before the Chinese invented the compass. Beautiful Viking Tattoo Raven 3D All Over Printed hoodie and sweatshirt. According to legend, a navigator named Hippalus discovered the trade winds (the term also came from there) in the Arabian Gulf, although it is obvious that Indian and Arab sailors. well known this kind of wind. A key factor in expanding long-distance maritime trade was not landslides on thousands of kilometers of endlessly long coastline, but rather that Greek sailors were ready to send ships straight through the open route. the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean in the face of terrible monsoons.
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