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| c. 2500 BC |
| | A boat of cedar planks, some 44 metres long, is buried at Giza | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | The great network of roads built by Darius I has at its centre the 2000-mile royal road from Susa to Sardis | |
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| 490 BC |
| | Pheidippides, given the task of running from Athens to Sparta to request help at Marathon against the Persians, completes the journey in two days | |
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| 312 BC |
| | The first Roman road, the Via Appia, links Rome with Capua | |
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| c. 310 BC |
| | Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule | |
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| 138 BC |
| | Zhang Qian, a Chinese diplomat, begins a spell of twelve years as a captive of the nomadic horde, the Xiongnu | |
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| c. 126 BC |
| | Zhang Qian reaches Bactria and is the first to bring news of western Asia back to China | |
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| | Roman legions build the Fosse Way, a raised road with a ditch on each side stretching from Lincoln to Devon | |
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| c. 800 |
| | Seafarers colonize New Zealand, the last great island region in the Pacific to be reached by human beings | |
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