Trade Routes
Establishment of regional land and sea networks for bartering, exchanging surplus goods and rare materials over long distances.
Core metadata
- ID: trade_routes
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -8000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Obsidian Blade Trade (obsidian_blade_trade)
- Proto-Currency (proto_currency)
- Salted Trade Provisions (salted_trade_provisions)
- Shell Bead Drilling (shell_bead_drilling)
- Standardized Weights and Measures (standardized_weights_and_measures)
- Tin Working (tin_working)
- Town Market Squares (town_market_squares)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- The History of Money (American Numismatic Association Money Museum, 2019, museum) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barter (barter) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Barter provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
|
| Pastoralism (pastoralism) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Pastoralism provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Sailing (sailing) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Sailing provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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