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The Suez Canal shortened the distance between the Mediterranean and the Indian ocean, increasing European trade with Asia and India.

Geographically, and only on the surface, it made Africa a separate continent from Eurasia. Previously the Sinai was the land bridge between the continents.

(Travelers still had to cross the Nile, unless they detoured south to its source.)

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