An earlier natural Suez passage and the route to India

What if an earthquake had opened the Suez route a century before the canal was dug?

It would substantially change the route to India and eastern trade, bringing wealth to whoever first controlled the passage.

A counterfactual earthquake opens the Suez route a century before the canal was dug. Such a passage would change the area's geography and value by altering access to India and the wider East. The first power to control the route could gain considerable wealth, although the brief answer does not identify that power or develop a detailed sequence of events.