
1) Industrial link 2) Silk Road
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A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains long distance arteries, which may further be connected to smaller networks of commercial and noncommercial transportation routes. Among notable tra...
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(from the article `Europe, history of`) ...developed during the last centuries , and subsistence production must have increased drastically. Along with these domestic changes, there were ... It was apparently in connection with this trade that during the 5th century there occurred two voyages of exploration and trade, evidently of ... ...
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[
n] - a route followed by traders (usually in caravans)
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noun a route followed by traders (usually in caravans)
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