Caption

The Growth of Urban Supply Routes 3500 BC – AD 1500

Summary

“Plotted at 500-year intervals, the successive snapshots used in this
animation show the proliferation of trade routes which supplied a
growing urban network.” [1]

Notice that some trade networks collapsed.

For an animation of West-Eurasian trade networks from 3600-1400 BCE, see
Image:The West-Eurasia World System, 3600-1400 BC [2].

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Source

Sherratt, Andrew, ‘Trade Routes: the Growth of Global Trade”, ArchAtlas, October 2006, 2nd Edition, http://www.archatlas.org/Trade/Trade.php, Accessed: 27 April 2007

ArchAtlas 2nd edition, July 2006