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Trade route Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE · 500 years

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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Persian Royal Road

500 BCE – 330 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Kushite Conquest of Egypt

747 BCE – 656 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 BCE and 300 BCE.

800 BCE Heracleion 750 BCE Meroe 747 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt 700 BCE Thonis 612 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests 600 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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 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 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • PetraAzurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • MeroëWufei07 · Public domain
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylonhttp://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hgpix1.html · Public domain
  • HadhramautJialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org [ dead link ] · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Royal RoadOriginal creator: Mossmaps Corrections according to Oxford Atlas of World History 2002, T… · CC BY-SA 4.0