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Lecture 6 Definition of trade route World major trade routes Definition types of international transport Definition of trade route a?route, often?covering?a?long?distance, that?people?buying?andselling?goods?often used in the past （旧时的）贸易路线，商队路线/dictionary/english-chinese-simplified/trade-route 1?:?one of the sea-lanes used by merchant ships2?:?a route followed by traders (as in caravans)? (/dictionary/trade%20route ) World major trade routes Historic trade routes: Amber Road: served as a dependable network for long-distance trade Spice Road: Middle Ages Silk Route one of the first trade routes to join the?Eastern?and the?Western worlds Amber Road Prehistoric commercial routes between Northern and Southern Europe? 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 ?As an important raw material, sometimes dubbed the gold of the north, amber was transported from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts overland by way of the?Vistula?andDnieper?rivers to?Italy,?Greece, the?Black Sea,?Syria?and?Egypt?thousands of years ago, and long after. Amber Road Spice Route Spices were among the most expensive and demanded products of the Middle Ages. They were all imported from Asia and Africa. As trade between India and the?Greco-Roman world?increased?spices became the main import from India to the Western world Silk Route The Silk road was one of the first trade routes to join the?Eastern?and the?Western worlds. According to Vadime Elisseeff (2000): Along the Silk Roads, technology traveled, ideas were exchanged, and friendship and understanding between East and West were experienced for the first time on a large scale. Easterners were exposed to Western ideas and life-styles, and Westerners too, learned about Eastern culture and its spirituality-oriented cosmology.?Buddhism?as an Eastern religion received international attention through the Silk Roads. Major export count