Answer:
Calicut was an important trading port from the 1200s to the 1400s between China and the Middle East and Africa.
Explanation:
Before the Europeans discovered it, Calicut was an important trade center between Africa and Asia. The Moroccan and Chinese travels would describe it having a significant Muslim population and there were Chinese silks and local silks traded, as well as pearls and spices like pepper. In the 16th century, the Portuguese began to develop a hegemony over the spice trade in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese established a fort at Calicut in 1513 but it fell back to the control of the local Indian leader the Zamorin in 1526.
