Okun: Indian Ocean Trade

You may not be successful searching in book indexes and databases using only the name of your site of encounter. Don't give up! Try a more broad search that may not mention your site specifically, but the context of the article will allow you to make inferences about your specific site of encounter. Suggestions include:

• "Indian Ocean Trade"
• or just "Trade" - then look at related subtopics
• Objects of trade like: "gold trade," silver, spice, slave, ivory, coffee, textile, porcelain, etc.
• Find out the modern-day name for the region or country of medieval site of encounter (e.g., East Africa, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, Tanzania, etc.) and search for sources about the history of that country (trade history in particular)
• Find sources focused on the medieval era/middle ages and search for terms above in those

For a list of books on this topic, click here or search the library catalog.