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Trade route Middle East

Persian Royal Road

500 BCE – 330 BCE · 170 years

Ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt in the Achaemenid Empire

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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Ziggurat of Ur

2100 BCE – 500 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Nabatean Kingdom

400 BCE – 106 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

400 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Ur

3799 BCE – 499 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Axum

400 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Kush

Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 330 BCE.

500 BCE Aden 500 BCE Adulis 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 332 BCE Siege of Tyre 331 BCE Alexandria

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

Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE Scythians Polity 400 BCE – 100 CE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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