“ONE BELT ONE ROAD”
THE MARITIME SILK ROAD
THE MARITIME SILK ROAD
OR MARITIME SILK ROUTE
China and the coast of IS THE MARITIME
SECTION OF THE
east Africa HISTORIC SILK ROAD
THAT CONNECTED
SOUTHEAST ASIA, EAST
ASIA, THE INDIAN
“ONE BELT ONE ROAD” SUBCONTINENT, THE
THE MARITIME SILK ARABIAN PENINSULA,
ROAD EASTERN AFRICA, AND
EUROPE. IT BEGAN BY
THE 2ND CENTURY BCE
AND FLOURISHED UNTIL
THE 15TH CENTURY CE.
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The maritime silk road essentially runs
from the Chinese coast to the south via
Hanoi to Jakarta, Singapore and Kuala
Lumpur through the Strait of Malacca
then via Colombo in Sri Lanka towards
the southern tip of India via Malé, to
the East African Mombasa, from there
to Djibouti, then through the Red Sea
via the Suez Canal to the
Mediterranean, then via Haifa, Istanbul
and Athens to the Upper Adriatic region
to the northern Italian hub of Trieste
with its international free port and its
rail connections to Central Europe and
the North Sea.
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Who started the maritime Silk Road?
The Maritime Silk Road was The importance of the maritime
primarily established and Silk Road
operated by Austronesian The Maritime Silk Road played a
sailors in Southeast Asia who significant role in connecting the
sailed large long-distance East and the West, facilitating trade,
ocean-going sewn-plank and and cultural exchange between
lashed-lug trade ships. different civilizations. The route was
not only used for trade, but also for
the exchange of religions, languages,
and ideas.
They traded goods such as silk,
spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool,
precious metals, and ideas.
THE MARITIME SILK
ROAD( ONE BELT ONE ROAD)
AND EAST AFRICA.
THE MARITIME SILK ROAD ESTABLISHES THREE "BLUE
ECONOMIC PASSAGES" KNITTED TOGETHER THROUGH
A CHAIN OF SEA PORTS FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
TO AFRICA THAT ALSO DIRECT TRADE TO AND FROM
CHINA.
Some of these seaports chained These became wealthy centres
down to the East African coastal for the exchange of goods, ideas,
cities; languages, and beliefs, with large
markets and continually changing
As such lively coastal cities
populations of merchants and
connected via the Indian Ocean
sailors.
grew up around the frequently
visited ports along these routes,
in East Africa these included
Zanzibar, Kilwa Kisiwani, as well
as sites in modern day Somalia,
Kenya and Mozambique, and in
the Indian Ocean, the Island of
Madagascar.
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What did East Africa trade on the Silk Road
The East African trading port of Kilwa o Natural resources such as ivory, timber,
Kisiwani was another of such coastal animal skins, incense, rock crystal, and
cities which emerged and thrived due ambergris were exported from Kilwa
to its connection to the maritime trade Kisiwani, as were metals like gold,
routes. The city, located off the coast copper and iron and luxury items
of what is today south-eastern including precious stones and crystals.
Tanzania, was a bustling island trading From Kilwa Kisiwani these goods were
port, part of the Kilwa Kisiwani transported onwards across the Indian
Archipelago (a chain of islands) which Ocean and to various different locations
lies off the south-eastern coast along the Maritime Silk Roads.
Tanzania and north of Madagascar,
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o THE EARLIEST STONE STRUCTURES The majority of the Chinese
AT KILWA KISIWANI WERE BUILT ceramics from Kilwa Kisiwani date
AROUND 1000 CE AND THE FIRST from the 13th to the 15th centuries
SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AT THE CE and are of a particularly high
TRADE PORT WAS THE GREAT quality. For example, a fine Qingbai
MOSQUE CONSTRUCTED IN THE glazed bottle from the Yuan period
11TH CENTURY CE USING LOCAL (1271 -1368 CE) was discovered
CORAL AND DECORATED WITH Husuni Kubwa
EMBEDDED CHINESE PORCELAIN.
Also a mosque at Songo Mnara had
a Longquan celadon bowl with an
heirloom stored within it.
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ancient Chinese imports 11
Below are the remains of the ancient Chinese
imports
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In the picture at above ,these
seemingly useless sherds of broken
pottery show the great extent of the
trade networks created by the
merchants of Kilwa Kisiwani. The
blue and light green (jade) shards
were crafted in China; the deep
green and white pieces were the
products of Iran and Oman; the
simple brown pot is the everyday
vessel used by inland African tribes
to transport water and food
products to the island villages.
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