Find out what kind of relationship between shipping and trade existed in antiquity.

Find out what kind of relationship between shipping and trade existed in antiquity. Where and what goods were transported along the rivers?

In antiquity and in the Middle Ages, there was a special relationship between shipping and trade. The transportation of goods was carried out using river and sea shipping, because the transportation of goods along ordinary roads was impossible due to their imperfection or complete absence. For this reason, the rivers were the main arteries for trade. The great “Silk Road” was famous, along which goods were transported from Europe to Asia. The route “from the Varangians to the Greeks” connected the north and south, and the Volga trade route operated in Eurasia.