Classic Era

By Shawn Warner
  • 5000 BCE

    Ancient Fishing Boats

  • 1000 BCE

    Sugar Cane

    Origins in Southeast Asia and had reached India by 1000 BCE
  • 610 BCE

    Pharaoh Necho the Second

    Egyptian KIng started building a canal linking the Nile River and the Red Sea
  • 600 BCE

    Phoenicians

    Dominated trade and travel during the first millennium BCE
  • 515 BCE

    Scylax of Caryanda

    Made a voyage into the Indian Ocean from 510-515 BCE
  • 500 BCE

    Hanno

    An admiral from the Phoenician city of Carthage
  • 356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    KIng of Greece and a military commander in 336 BCE.
  • 300 BCE

    Frankincense and Myrhh

    Are dried sap of trees that grow exclusively in Southern Arabia.
  • 206 BCE

    Cloves

    A highly desired luxury item cloves were traded regularly along routes stretching from Europe to China
  • 200 BCE

    Pearls

    Popular jewelry style in the Roman Empire
  • 138 BCE

    Zhang Qian

    A early pioneer of the "Silk Road" trade routes
  • 64 BCE

    Strabo The Geographer

    Was a Greek traveler and the author of the famous work Geography
  • 326

    Nearchus Captain of Alexander the Great navy

    Nearchus was a explorer amd officer in the navy of Alexander the Great Navy.