A trade route is a commonly used path of travel for those (e.g. for a small group of merchants and their armed and logistical escort, or for a caravan or a flotilla) who frequently traverse between any major points of barter and commerce. Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy and information. ... Caravans comprise land-based trading convoys, often utilising the camel as a beast of burden, and generally associated with crossing deserts in Asia or Africa. ... Barter is a simple form of trade where goods or services are exchanged for a certain amount of other goods or services, i. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Which route is considered preferable (or not) for use by a given set of traders in a given historical period depends on a number of background factors, including an overall political and economic situation in areas to be crossed, travellers' mode of transport, their navigation skills and knowledge of geography (and weather patterns), as well as on the actual ease, speed, safety and profitability of such repeatedly taken journeys. Networks of trade routes and shipping routes have existed for many thousands of years in almost all parts of the planet, as they have been established across water (i.e. rivers, lakes, sea coasts, and oceans), land (i.e. trails, roads and canals), and since the early 20th century - air. For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... For the internet phenomenon of involvement with fictional romance, see Shipping (fandom). ... This page is related to transport; you may be looking for the 2002 Bollywood movie Road. ...

Important trade routes

• The Royal Road was established or improved upon by Persian kings, and became the foundation for the Silk Road.

• Silk and Spice Routes connected various empires across Europe and Asia, including the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty, around the 1st century. These routes connected a number of trading posts and spanned a large part of the known world. See Silk Road.

• Incense Routes connected the Arabian Peninsula to North Africa, Levant and Europe and were largely run by Arabian traders who supplied those regions with frankincense and myrrh.

• The Amber Road connected the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts by way of the Vistula and Dnieper rivers to Italy, Greece, Black Sea and Egypt. The Silk Road could then be reached from the Black Sea for further transporting Baltic amber.

• Trans-Saharan trade routes connected West Africa and Mediterranean countries.

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See also

• Caravanserai
• Cargo
• Dromography
• Historic transport

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External links

• Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project (http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html)