Yeah, basically eurasian continent has been crisscrossed with traderoutes for thousands of years. From Scandinavia to Mediterranean, from China to Italy (romans

Yeah, basically eurasian continent has been crisscrossed with traderoutes for thousands of years. From Scandinavia to Mediterranean, from China to Italy (romans were fond of chinese silk). I suppose the stereotype of the sedentary medieval peasant is so strong that notions of traderoutes spanning thousands of kilometers being ordinary is hard to grasp.