long-distance trade
Faraway goods exchange
Long-distance trade is commerce conducted across significant geographic distances, typically between regions, nations, or continents.
The term usually appears in historical or economic contexts: The Silk Road facilitated long-distance trade between East and West.
It implies organized networks, intermediaries, and goods valuable enough to justify transportation costs—spices, textiles, precious metals.
- marketVenue for trade
- foreign marketsCommerce in other nations
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- merchant shipVessel for transporting goods
- sea voyageTravel across ocean waters
Silk Road · overland journey · freight · bulk cargo · customs duty · letter of credit · diffusion · exotic goods · supply chain · caravan · cargo · mercantilism · East India Company · artistic influence · barter · diaspora · syncretism · port
- prehistoric commercebarter, obsidian, flint tools, shell beads, amber
long-distance tradelocal trade
Exchange within a community
local commerce · local markets · domestic trade · regional trade · village markets
long-distance tradesubsistence economy
System without market surplus
autarky · self-sufficiency · subsistence farming · economic isolation · self-reliance
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