They would also attack trading routes to cut enemy's supply and transportation.

The location has been a post on a trading route for centuries.

The town grew from its position on trans-Saharan trading routes.

They may have used the river as a trading route.

However the changes in the trading routes and the agricultural methods ended the old importance of the region.

The company concentrated on western trading routes and engaged other members of the family clan.

Previously the river had been dangerous for ships and was not efficient as an international trading route.

The castle had first been mentioned in the 12th century and was probably built to protect a trading route.

The area was an important, ancient trading route, so it may have been a port.

He'd expected their rendezvous to be somewhere out at sea, on one of the trading routes from the east.