- Obsidian Route (Neolithic) · 7000 BCE – 3000 BCE
- Nile River Trade Route · 3000 BCE – 1900 CE
- Inner Asian Steppe Trade Network · 3000 BCE – 1500 CE
- Lapis Lazuli Route · 3000 BCE – 1500 BCE
- Tin Route (Cornwall-Mediterranean) · 2500 BCE – 500 BCE
- Tin Route · 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
- Amber Road · 1600 BCE – 500 CE
- Incense Route · 1000 BCE – 200 CE
- Turkish Straits (Bosphorus & Dardanelles) · 700 BCE – 2025 CE
- Royal Road (Lydian-Assyrian) · 700 BCE – 330 BCE
- Via Salaria (Roman Salt Road) · 500 BCE – 400 CE
- Spice Route · 500 BCE – 1500 CE
- Royal Road (Persian) · 500 BCE – 330 BCE
- Via Appia (Roman Road Network) · 312 BCE – 500 CE
- Grand Trunk Road · 300 BCE – 1900 CE
- Indian Ocean Trade Route · 300 BCE – 1500 CE
- Horse–Silk Trade · 200 BCE – 900 CE
- Silk Road · 200 BCE – 1450 CE
- Maritime Silk Road · 200 BCE – 1500 CE
- Via Egnatia · 146 BCE – 1400 CE
- Silk Road (Land) · 130 BCE – 1453 CE
- Indo-Roman Spice Route · 30 BCE – 200 CE
- Annona — Egyptian Grain Route · 30 BCE – 400 CE
- East African Coastal Trade · 100 CE – 1700 CE
- Trans-Saharan Trade Route · 300 CE – 1600 CE
- Steppe Silk Road · 552 CE – 1300 CE
- Tea Horse Road · 600 CE – 1900 CE
- Grand Canal of China · 605 CE – 1900 CE
- Radhanite Trade Network · 700 CE – 1000 CE
- Darb Zubaydah (Pilgrim Road) · 750 CE – 1000 CE
- Talas–Kashgar (Paper Route) · 751 CE – 1100 CE
- Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks · 800 CE – 1240 CE
- Mediterranean Trade Route (Venice) · 800 CE – 1600 CE
- Volga Trade Route (Viking) · 800 CE – 1100 CE
- Fur Road (Volga Trade Route) · 800 CE – 1240 CE
- North Sea Trade Network · 800 CE – 1600 CE
- Gold-Salt Route (Sijilmasa-Timbuktu) · 800 CE – 1500 CE
- Swahili-Indian Ocean Route · 1000 CE – 1500 CE
- Anatolian Seljuk Caravan Road · 1075 CE – 1308 CE
- Flanders Wool Route · 1100 CE – 1500 CE
- Champagne Fairs Routes · 1150 CE – 1300 CE
- Hanseatic League Routes · 1200 CE – 1669 CE
- Genoa-Crimea Trade Line · 1200 CE – 1475 CE
- Golden Horde Trade Route · 1240 CE – 1450 CE
- Timurid Silk Road Revival · 1370 CE – 1500 CE
- Strait of Malacca · 1400 CE – 2025 CE
- Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Road) · 1438 CE – 1533 CE
- Portuguese Maritime Route · 1498 CE – 1700 CE
- Triangular Trade (Atlantic) · 1500 CE – 1867 CE
- Kazakh Steppe Salt & Livestock Route · 1500 CE – 1860 CE
- Baltic Grain Route · 1500 CE – 1800 CE
- Cape Route · 1500 CE – 1869 CE
- Atlantic Cod Route · 1500 CE – 1900 CE
- Spanish Silver Route · 1545 CE – 1800 CE
- Manila-Acapulco Galleon · 1565 CE – 1815 CE
- Trans-Siberian Fur Route · 1580 CE – 1900 CE
- Dutch East India Route · 1602 CE – 1799 CE
- Tea Road (Russia-China) · 1689 CE – 1900 CE
- Canton System · 1700 CE – 1842 CE
- Russian-American Fur Route (Bering) · 1741 CE – 1867 CE
- Atlantic Cotton-Grain Route · 1800 CE – 1914 CE
- Bab-el-Mandeb / Red Sea · 1869 CE – 2025 CE
- US Transcontinental Railroad · 1869 CE – 2025 CE
- Suez Canal Route · 1869 CE – 2025 CE
- Berlin-Baghdad Railway · 1903 CE – 1940 CE
- Trans-Siberian Railway · 1904 CE – 2025 CE
- Panama Canal Route · 1914 CE – 2025 CE
- Oil Routes (Middle East-World) · 1945 CE – 2025 CE
- Cold War Trade Blocs (COMECON) · 1949 CE – 1991 CE
- Strait of Hormuz · 1950 CE – 2025 CE
- Druzhba Oil Pipeline · 1964 CE – 2025 CE
- Modern Global Supply Chain · 1990 CE – 2025 CE
- Submarine Internet Cables · 1990 CE – 2025 CE
- South China Sea Route · 1990 CE – 2025 CE
- INSTC (North-South Corridor) · 2002 CE – 2025 CE
- Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) · 2006 CE – 2025 CE
- Northern Sea Route (Arctic) · 2010 CE – 2025 CE
- Nord Stream · 2011 CE – 2022 CE
- Belt and Road — Maritime (String of Pearls) · 2013 CE – 2025 CE
- Belt and Road — Land (New Silk Road) · 2013 CE – 2025 CE
- Middle Corridor (Trans-Caspian) · 2014 CE – 2025 CE
- TANAP/TAP (Southern Gas Corridor) · 2018 CE – 2025 CE
- Power of Siberia · 2019 CE – 2025 CE
- Black Sea Grain Corridor · 2022 CE – 2025 CE
- IMEC (India–Middle East–Europe Corridor) · 2023 CE – 2025 CE
- Lobito Corridor · 2024 CE – 2025 CE
Trade Routes of World History
86 trade routes