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Landmark Middle East trade

Alexandria

331 BCE – still standing

Mediterranean trading hub founded by Alexander the Great

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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–400 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Iran

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Eritrean–Ethiopian War

1998 CE – 2000 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 331 BCE and 2026 CE.

322 BCE Wars of the Diadochi 300 BCE Petra 280 BCE Lighthouse of Alexandria 275 BCE Berenice 274 BCE Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Aristotle Figure · Greece 384 BCE – 322 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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