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Sijilmasa's Rise and Role in Trans-Saharan Commerce (c. 760–1350)

757 - 1363

Sassanian Persia and control of Silk Road passages (3rd–7th centuries CE)

224 - 651

Samanid and Uyghur commercial networks in Central Asia (9th–10th centuries CE)

819 - 1000

Sabaean and Himyarite frankincense and myrrh trade across the Arabian Sea (c. 900 BCE–600 CE)

900 BCE - 575

Saadian Morocco and the Reassertion of Trans-Saharan Trade (c. 1554–1659)

1554 - 1666

Roman–India maritime trade in the Early Roman Empire (c. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE)

118 BCE - 400

Roman Empire imports of silk and luxury goods (1st–4th centuries CE)

1 - 399

Red Sea–Indian Ocean exchange during the Hellenistic period (c. 330–30 BCE)

303 BCE - 45

Portuguese Indian Ocean expansion and its effects on overland Silk Road trade (15th–17th centuries CE)

1498 - 1641

Portuguese Atlantic Expansion and the Disruption of Trans-Saharan Routes (c. 15th–17th centuries)

1415 - 1637

Ports and routes in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st century CE)

300 BCE - 70

Pax Mongolica: Mongol Empire facilitation of Silk Road exchange (13th–14th centuries CE)

1206 - 1368

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