From ancient Rome, ships sailed southeast across the Mediterranean to pick up grain at (1) -
, a port city in Egypt. An African port that was closer, situated
to the southwest of Rome, was (2)
Roman trading ships sailed
west as far as the (3)
Peninsula and northeast as far as the
Peninsula. To sail to Byzantium and ports that were northe ast
of Rome, Roman ships sailed southeast on the (5)
Sea, then
northeast on the (6)
Sea.
From Athens, Greek trading ships sailed westward on the Mediterranean to grain-
producing regions on the island of (7)
and southeast, then
southwest around the island of Crete to (8)
on the African coast.
Greek trading ships sailed as far east as lands along the eastern coast of the
(9)
Sea. Neither Greek nor Roman trade routes cross the
(10)
Ocean or the (11)
Sea.