Begun in the 2nd century B.C., this "road" of trade stretched 4,000 miles from China to the Mediterranean
[DOC] [TLE] Era 2- Main Idea Summary - Marion County Public Schools [PAR] In the 9th century BC colonists from Tyre founded in northern Africa the city of 
Carthage, ... By the 2nd century AD it had a sizable Christian community, and the 
... visible from certain elevated points of the coast, though at 170 miles distance.