<Ul> <Li> The spice trade in Kerala attracted traders from all over the Old World to India . Early writings and Stone Age carvings of Neolithic age obtained indicates that India's Southwest coastal port Muziris, in Kerala, had established itself as a major spice trade centre from as early as 3,000 BCE, according to Sumerian records . Kerala was referred to as the land of spices or as the "Spice Garden of India". It was the place traders and exporters wanted to reach, including Christopher Colombus, Vasco da Gama, and others . </Li> <Li> Buddhism entered China through the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism in the 1st or 2nd century CE . The interaction of cultures resulted in several Chinese travellers and monks to enter India . Most notable were Faxian, Yijing, Song Yun and Xuanzang . These travellers wrote detailed accounts of the Indian Subcontinent, which includes the political and social aspects of the region . </Li> <Li> Hindu and Buddhist religious establishments of Southeast Asia came to be associated with the economic activity and commerce as patrons entrust large funds which would later be used to benefit local economy by estate management, craftsmanship, promotion of trading activities . Buddhism in particular, travelled alongside the maritime trade, promoting coinage, art and literacy . Indian merchants involved in spice trade took Indian cuisine to Southeast Asia, where spice mixtures and curries became popular with the native inhabitants . </Li> <Li> The Greco - Roman world followed by trading along the incense route and the Roman - India routes . During the first millennium, the sea routes to India were controlled by the Indians and Ethiopians that became the maritime trading power of the Red Sea . </Li> <Li> According to Poseidonius, later reported in Strabo's Geography, the monsoon wind system of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 or 116 BCE . Poseidonius said a shipwrecked sailor from India had been rescued in the Red Sea and taken to Ptolemy VIII in Alexandria . Strabo, whose Geography is the main surviving source of the story, was sceptical about its truth . Modern scholarship tends to consider it relatively credible . During the 2nd century BCE Greek and Indian ships met to trade at Arabian ports such as Aden (called Eudaemon by the Greeks). Another Greek navigator, Hippalus, is sometimes credited with discovering the monsoon wind route to India . He is sometimes conjectured to have been part of Eudoxus's expeditions . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The spice trade in Kerala attracted traders from all over the Old World to India . Early writings and Stone Age carvings of Neolithic age obtained indicates that India's Southwest coastal port Muziris, in Kerala, had established itself as a major spice trade centre from as early as 3,000 BCE, according to Sumerian records . Kerala was referred to as the land of spices or as the "Spice Garden of India". It was the place traders and exporters wanted to reach, including Christopher Colombus, Vasco da Gama, and others . </Li> <Li> Buddhism entered China through the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism in the 1st or 2nd century CE . The interaction of cultures resulted in several Chinese travellers and monks to enter India . Most notable were Faxian, Yijing, Song Yun and Xuanzang . These travellers wrote detailed accounts of the Indian Subcontinent, which includes the political and social aspects of the region . </Li> <Li> Hindu and Buddhist religious establishments of Southeast Asia came to be associated with the economic activity and commerce as patrons entrust large funds which would later be used to benefit local economy by estate management, craftsmanship, promotion of trading activities . Buddhism in particular, travelled alongside the maritime trade, promoting coinage, art and literacy . Indian merchants involved in spice trade took Indian cuisine to Southeast Asia, where spice mixtures and curries became popular with the native inhabitants . </Li>

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