trade route
Merchant's regular path
A trade route is an established path for transporting goods between regions or countries.
Historically, these were overland or sea passages connecting distant markets: the Silk Road was the most famous trade route between East and West.
The term implies regular commercial traffic rather than one-time journeys, and often evokes ancient or historical commerce.
- merchantOne who sells wares
- merchant shipVessel for transporting goods
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- cargoTransported goods
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
commerce · shipping lane · market · customs checkpoint · spice · East India Company · Roman road · sea lane · port of call · waystations · journey · salt · bazaar · camel · convoy · toll road · smuggler · harbor
- Suez CanalSuez Canal, waterway, chokepoint, passage, transit
- Ocean routesNorth Atlantic, shipping lane, ferry crossing
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- global tradeexport tax, exports, import tax, imports, export
- Middle EastIraq, Baghdad, Cairo, Iran, Jordan
- VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, Norse settlers
trade routeblockade
Sealing off a place
dead end · barrier · closed border · cul-de-sac · local road
trade routeborder wall
Structure dividing adjacent territories
Iron Curtain · DMZ · demilitarized zone · quarantine zone · forbidden zone
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