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Alexandrian merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes describes the importance …
Years: 548 - 548
Alexandrian merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes describes the importance of the spice trade, especially in cloves and sweet aloe, in Ceylon, and the harvesting of pepper in India, in his Christian Topography.
The work, written around 548, contains some of the earliest and most famous world maps.
His description of India and Sri Lanka, based partly on his personal experiences as a merchant on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the early sixth century, is invaluable to historians.
Cosmas seems to have personally visited the Kingdom of Axum in modern Ethiopia, as well as Eritrea, India, and Sri Lanka.
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- Anuradhapura Kingdom (Sinhalese)
- Pandyan Dynasty
- Chera dynasty
- Aksum (or Axum), Kingdom of
- Egypt (Roman province)
- East, Diocese of the
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
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Years: 548 - 548
Locations
People
Groups
- Anuradhapura Kingdom (Sinhalese)
- Pandyan Dynasty
- Chera dynasty
- Aksum (or Axum), Kingdom of
- Egypt (Roman province)
- East, Diocese of the
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions