A long-distance route along which commercial goods are transported.
a system of ancient trade routes linking East and West Asia
Dutch ships explored new trade routes and brought back a great variety of commodities
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Lodges provided food and shelter along the trade routes.
The fertile land of Syria lies at the crossroads of great trade routes between the East and West.
You can lose livestock or fall short on harvest, but developing trade routes can help you survive these hardships.
We need to build castles of security along trade routes that feature security technology equivalent to the moats, drawbridges, and watch towers of that period.
The major trade routes were sea lanes round England.
They aimed to curtail the aggressive territorial expansion and monopolization of the trade routes of the Adriatic Sea.
The clans formed by the kinship networks each had their own oral traditions of origin, typically of migrations along the trade routes from a conventional place of origin.
By the fourteenth century, trade routes to the wealthy salt, gold, ivory, and slave markets in North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East had sprung up across the territory.
Much came through trade routes from East Africa, above all through Swahili traders, who obtained the tusks from the African interior and exported these to Europe and to the East.
Land and sea trade routes brought an abundance of designs in earlier times, suggesting Ottoman Turkish, Andalusian, Balkan, and Algerian influences.