Question

the monsoon-dependent trade routes in the Indian Ocean linking east Asia with Southeast Asia, South Asia and southwest Asia on which merchants countries exchanged goods too heavy to transport by land?

Answer 1

Monsoon winds made trading across the Indian Ocean easier because they made trading more predictable and less dangerous. Without the monsoons when people could only rely sails and ors there was the possibility that their goods wouldn't make it on time and would go bad, or that the ship we sink.