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Landmark Middle East trade

Adulis

600 BCE – 700 CE · 1,300 years

Red Sea port of the Aksumite Empire, through which ivory, gold, and spices flowed between Africa, Rome, and India

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–700 BCE)
  2. West African cereal farmers (500 BCE–323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Damot (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. West African cereal farmers (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Axum (1 BCE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1100 CE)
  7. Zagwe dynasty (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1279 CE–1600 CE)
  9. Ottoman Empire (1650 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE)
  11. Egypt (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Eritrea (Italy) (1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Eritrea (1914 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Eritrea (Italy) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Eritrea (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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559 BCE – 530 BCE

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

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Persia

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Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

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Neo-Babylonian Conquests

612 BCE – 562 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 BCE and 700 CE.

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