Land and sea routes of antiquity that carried amber, spices, incense and goods across continents. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the route an ancient trade route or network of trade routes. It excludes modern sea lanes. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members. It is one of the groups under the Historic Trade Routes and Sea Lanes subcategory of the Transport atlas, which has its own browse page listing every group and member.
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Ancient Trade Routes
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Wikipedia: Amber Road
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The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia: Maritime Silk Road
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The Maritime Silk Road or Maritime Silk Route is an ancient maritime trade route in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific that connected Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula, eastern Africa, and Europe.
Wikipedia: Trans-Saharan trade
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Trans-Saharan trade is trade between North Africa and the rest of Africa (sub-Saharan Africa) that requires travel across the Sahara.
Incense trade route (Wikipedia)
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The incense trade route was an ancient network of major land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with eastern and southern sources of incense, spices and other luxury goods, stretching from Mediterranean ports across the Levant and Egypt through Northeast Africa and Arabia, through both the sea and the land al
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