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and trade became increasingly prominent. In modern times, commercial activity shifted from the major trade routes of the Old World to newer routes between...

west, and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean to the east. Many trading routes went from oasis to oasis to resupply on both food and water. These oases...

Vikings developed several trading centres both in Scandinavia and abroad as well as a series of long-distance trading routes during the Viking Age (c....

sometimes referred to as the Dnieper trade route and Dniester trade route, respectively. The route began in Scandinavian trading centers such as Birka, Hedeby...

Ottoman Turks held the route again by 1453 respectively. Overland routes helped the spice trade initially, but maritime trade routes led to tremendous growth...

The incense trade route was an ancient network of major land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with eastern and southern sources...

Sail, the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents. For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe...

Aldeigjuborg). Archaeological evidence suggests Rus trading activities along the Volga trade route as early as the end of the 8th century. The earliest...

began to trade with Natives during the 16th century. Colonists created factories, also known as trading posts, at which furs could be traded, in Native...

known as La Nao de China, and Galeón de Acapulco, refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Spanish Crown's Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in...

to the region to engage in trade. The Nanyang was extremely important in the trading business and one of China's main trading partners in early years; it...

Syrian Desert to the Levant, where Mediterranean trading ships plied regular routes to Italy, while land routes went either north through Anatolia or south...

major trading empire in the Mediterranean Sea. The Venetian slave trade were divided in to several separate trading routes. In the Balkan slave trade, Venetian...

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...

old. Dilmun was an important trading centre. At the height of its power, it controlled the Persian Gulf trading routes. According to some modern theories...

between the Rus and the Islamic world developed quickly into a network of trading routes. Initially the Rus founded Staraya Ladoga as the first node from the...

partook in trading were bound together by sea lanes, rivers, and great overland trade routes, some of which had been in use since antiquity. Trading was broken...

circumstances, trading at market price between locations can benefit both locations. Different types of traders may specialize in trading different kinds...

several related string instruments that independently spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia...

(also known as a salt route, salt way, saltway, or salt trading route) refers to any of the prehistoric and historical trade routes by which essential salt...