<P> The Seleucid dynasty controlled a developed network of trade with the Indian Subcontinent which had previously existed under the influence of the Achaemenid Empire . The Greek - Ptolemaic dynasty, controlling the western and northern end of other trade routes to Southern Arabia and the Indian Subcontinent, had begun to exploit trading opportunities in the region prior to the Roman involvement but, according to the historian Strabo, the volume of commerce between Indians and the Greeks was not comparable to that of later Indo - Roman trade . </P> <P> The Periplus Maris Erythraei mentions a time when sea trade between Egypt and the subcontinent did not involve direct sailings . The cargo under these situations was shipped to Aden: </P> <P> Aden--Arabia Eudaimon was called the fortunate, being once a city, when, because ships neither came from India to Egypt nor did those from Egypt dare to go further but only came as far as this place, it received the cargoes from both, just as Alexandria receives goods brought from outside and from Egypt . </P> <P> The Ptolemaic dynasty had developed trade with Indian kingdoms using the Red Sea ports . With the establishment of Roman Egypt, the Romans took over and further developed the already existing trade using these ports . </P>

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