Merchants established diasporic communities to share their own cultural traditions with other cultures. Arabs and Persians in Eastern Asia, Chinese traders in Southeast Asia, and Malay communities in the Indian Ocean basin are a few notable examples.
States grew more firmly together as a result of trade along the margin of the Indian Ocean. Along the Swahili coast, city-states similar to the ancient Greek ones, the state of Gujarat in India, and the sultanate of Malacca emerged and prospered from trade. The last one is very significant since Malacca, an island that forms a relatively narrow strait between itself and East Asia, controlled this strait and amassed enormous wealth because Chinese traders frequently had to pass through it in order to access the riches of the Indian Ocean Basin. The Indian Ocean commerce encouraged the exchange of ideas, such as Buddhism to Southeast Asia and Islam across Eurasia, as did all trading networks. Numerous well-known travelers, including Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and ultimately Ming Admiral Zheng He used these important routes, and word of his exploits quickly spread throughout most of the world.
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