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Landmark Middle East trade World Heritage

Byblos

3000 BCE – 300 BCE · 2,700 years

One of the world's oldest cities, Phoenician port for papyrus and cedar

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Byblos on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Semites (3000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Canaan (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Hittites (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Ptolemaic Kingdom (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Syria (France) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Lebanon (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Unification of Egypt

3100 BCE – 2950 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 300 BCE.

3000 BCE Damascus 3000 BCE Sidon 3000 BCE Dilmun 2750 BCE Tyre 2700 BCE Saqqara

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Byblos Orient at de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
  • Great Pyramid of Giza Douwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Meroë Wufei07 · Public domain
  • Petra Azurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Hadhramaut Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org [ dead link ] · CC BY-SA 3.0