This map of Medieval trade routes is very detailed and interesting. It also may be of interest to compare with the route of the Ten Thousand, as its mention of mountain passes gives a pretty good indication of how they probably traveled. They are currently in Trebizond, near the center of the map on the Black Sea. They probably came through Baghesh Pass, and fought the last battle that was detailed at Zigana Pass.
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Ryan Petersen, who runs the logistics firm Flexport, said: "Was just chatting with a Flexport employee whose last job was at a 550-year old logistics company that once specialized in hauling spices over the Alps from Venice. Disruption is nothing new for them: De Gama sailing direct to India seriously derailed their Venice trade routes."
Couple things of interest to me. One is the presentation of the Silk Road network of roads. What we got in grade school and jr high 'way back in the last century, was a description of the Silk Road that implied a single route.
The other thing is the relatively dense network of trade routes in the then-known Western world. We got descriptions of the Delian League and of Rome's dependence on grain imports from Egypt, but almost no description at all of the movements of goods after the Western Roman empire fell. Just the interregnum and then the leap into the Rennaissance, which included, apparently, only arts and sciences, but no trade or economics.
Eric Hines
There’s been a lot of work in the past 20 years or so looking at specific kinds of goods that were traded, such as cloth. You also have to look at things like the Hanseatic League, or Italian merchant houses. I’m not sure if a general history of trade from, oh, AD500-1000 or 1500 has been written.
LittleRed1
That's a great map!
A history I read about the Mongol Empire stated that the peace imposed on vast territories facilitated trade from Europe and the Middle East to China.
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