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I'd have guessed that goods from Sri Lanka got to Rome via the Red Sea? My recollection of an "Empire" podcast episode I listened to recently (warmly recommend
by willvarfar 2y ago
I'd have guessed that goods from Sri Lanka got to Rome via the Red Sea?
My recollection of an "Empire" podcast episode I listened to recently (warmly recommended!) is that as much as half of all Rome's tax was raised at Egyptian ports on goods coming up the Red Sea.
- ggm 2y agoyes that might be a shorter path than overland. it would be my guess that in time deeper than roman, egyptian cash and goods were attractive to people in distant lands. Without going full Thor Heyerdal "Ra" they would have been capable of sailing coastal routes round if not a more direct route across the Arabian Seas But it's equally likely they traded indirectly with any of the coastal economies around the Gulf, and Horn of Africa.
- trilbyglens 2y agoA major trade route also was from Constantinople up the black sea and then the dnipro river up to the Baltic.
- singularity2001 2y agoYes, via Berenice Troglodytica
- jmclnx 2y ago>as much as half of all Rome's tax was raised at Egyptian ports Interesting and makes sense to me. I remember reading a long time ago, when the Eastern Empire lost Egypt to the Arabs, it was considered a huge major disaster for them.
- BurningFrog 2y agoYes, India and the Romans had extensive trade relations for the 6 centuries between the Romans conquered Egypt until the Arabs took it. Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations As I understand it, the Silk Road only became important when the sea route was closed. It lost its importance 800 years later when the Portugese found the sea route around Africa.