No, that's too hard for me to say with my lisp. The Monsoon Marketplace! Thanks, Danica. And now the tyranny of dates. By about 700 CE, there was a recognizable monsoon marketplace, but it really blew up between 1000 CE and 1200. It then declined a bit during the Pax Mongolica, when overland trade became cheap and safe, thanks to, wait for it, the Mongols. But then Indian Ocean trade surged again in the 14th and 15th centuries.