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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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Petra

300 BCE – still standing

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Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

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Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

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Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

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Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Neo-Babylonian Conquests

612 BCE – 562 BCE

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Events the timeline places between 600 BCE and 700 CE.

600 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon 559 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great 546 BCE Pasargadae 525 BCE Persian Conquest of Egypt 520 BCE Behistun Inscription 515 BCE Persepolis

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