Incense road
What is an incense road?
It comprised a network of major ancient land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with Eastern and Southern sources of incense
Information
Counties involved in this route
- Levant, Egypt, Arabia, India
Goods being traded
-goods such as Arabianfrankincense and myrrh, Indian spices, precious stones, pearls, ebony
Time period
-flourished between roughly the 7th century BCE to the 2nd country CE
How this brought change to a country
-it became crucial to the economy of Yemen
The incense trade
The incense trade depended heavily on navigation along the Red Sea.
Route of incense road
Route of the incense road