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Event trade Middle East

Berenice

275 BCE – 500 CE

Roman Red Sea port for trade with India and the Horn of Africa, rediscovered under desert sand.

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Standing in 275 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mount Etna Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Carlsbad Caverns Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Lençóis Maranhenses Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

282 BCE Colossus of Rhodes 280 BCE Pyrrhic War 280 BCE Lighthouse of Alexandria 279 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 274 BCE Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid) 267 BCE Chremonidean War