Nearchus Discovers a Sea Route from India to the Arabian Peninsula
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In 325 B.C. the Greek military commander Nearchus undertook a naval expedition from the mouth of the Indus River in what is ...
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Nearchus
360 B.C.-312 B.C.
Greek Military Commander
Acommander under Alexander the Great, Nearchus served as admiral over a fleet that
sailed from the coast of the Indian subcontinent to the Euphrates...
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Nearchus
Born c. 360 B.C., Crete Died 312 B.C.
By the sixth century B.C., Persia had become the largest and strongest empire in the known world, presiding over Egypt and all of western Asia. Persian ...
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Nearchus Discovers a Sea Route from India to the Arabian Peninsula
Nearchus