Ships allow traders to travel from sector to sector, transporting products and fighters.
A higher circuit of trade developed once urban traders from outside distant directions traveled to the market center in the quest to buy or sell goods.
In the meantime, traders should not travel to Abeokuta since their safety could not be guaranteed.
Numerous traders - most famously Marco Polo - had traveled between eastern and western Eurasia.
The east road, as I well knew, only straggled across broad farmlands from the Easthorns, and few traders or anyone else traveled that route.
In 1830 a trader and trapper named Pearson Denby was travelling through the Plains country.
As Dunhuang was located near foreign regions, many traders often travelled from the west to China through the Silk Road to pay tribute or to trade.
Hindu princes, religious teachers and traders traveled to the Khmer kingdom and settled in the area.
Roman traders may have travelled north, and Roman subsidies, or bribes, were sent to useful tribes and leaders.
Novgorodian traders travelled to the region in search of furs and animal hides.