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Not mentioned in the reading, these seasonal winds were how merchants and traders navigated the Indian Ocean.

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Cape of Good Hope, Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, South Africa

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Not mentioned in the reading, European merchants all had to sail around the southern tip of Africa in order to participate in Indian Ocean trade up until the 1800s, when a canal was built in Egypt that provided a shortcut.

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Not mentioned in the reading, after it was built in 1869 it provided a shortcut for Europeans to the Indian Ocean, and they no longer had to sail around Africa or deal with Muslim merchant middlemen.

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The seat of the British Empire, the British would create a huge empire in the 1800s that included control of India

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After conquering Bengal, the British East India Company would go on to directly or indirectly control most of the Indian subcontinent by the 1800s.

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A city in present day Bangladesh that was a major textile producing city in the 1700s.

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A region of India conquered by the British East India Company in 1757.

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A major source and trading center for Indian textilles

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Islands in Indonesia that were a major source of nutmeg and clove.  Dutch traders found that people here wanted Indian textiles in exchange for spice.