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Trade route Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE · 2,500 years

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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

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Unification of Egypt

3100 BCE – 2950 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 500 BCE.

3000 BCE Byblos 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 Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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