Trade Routes and Commodities, 500 to 1500

Caption

Trade Routes and Commodities

Summary

This map indicates major trade routes from 500 to 1500 in eastern Africa, Arabia and Persia.
Sites of key resources, such as textiles, spices, and gold fields, are also noted.

Source

Oxford Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 1999. General Editor Patrick K. O’Brien. (p. 83)

Copyright

Map copyright © Philip’s, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
Source: Philip’s Atlas of World History

Used under license from Octopus Publishing Group.

Series

This map is one in a series of maps selected from the Oxford Atlas of World History.

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