when did the very first long distance routes for trade emerge?
During the Chalcolithic Period
Trade route
Chalcolithic Period
india is an international highway of trade and commerce explain with reason It allowed commercial goods to cross borders with relaxed restrictions using innovative transportation of modern times such as pipeline transport, rail routes, automobiles, cargo airlines etc.
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Trade route [SEP] Early development
Long-distance trade routes were developed in the Chalcolithic Period. The period from the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE to the beginning of the Common Era saw societies in Southeast Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean, China, and the Indian subcontinent develop major transportation networks for trade. One of the vital instruments which facilitated long-distance trade was portage and the domestication of beasts of burden. Organized caravans, visible by the 2nd millennium BCE, could carry goods across a large distance as fodder was mostly available along the way. The domestication of camels allowed Arabian nomads to control the long-distance trade in spices and silk from the Far East to the Arabian Peninsula.