-
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.