The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean : the ancient world economy and the kingdoms of Africa, Arabia and India /
The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Se...
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Yorkshire :
Pen and Sword Maritime,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Revenue and the Roman economy
- Roman prosperity
- Incense: a unique product
- The intermediaries: Petra and Nabataeans
- Beyond Egypt: The Nile route and the African kingdom of Meroe
- The Red Sea route
- The scale and significance of Indian Ocean trade
- International business
- East Africa and the Aksumite Kingdom
- Southern Arabia and the Saba-Hiyarites
- Arabia Felix and the Hadramawt Kingdom
- The Indo-Parthians
- The Saka and Satavahana kingdoms
- The Tamil kingdoms of Southern India
- The Anuradhapura kingdom of Sri Lanka and the Far East
- The Antun embassy to China and the Antonine pandemic
- Conclusion: assessing the Roman economy.