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The Ottoman Empire controlled the land trade-routes between East Asia and Europe. As a result, it was able to dominate trade until the Europeans circumvented Ottoman-controlled lands by finding an all-water route to East Asia in the sixteenth century.
No
The Ottoman Empire kept them from crossing.
Railroads owned a lot of the western land near prime transportation routes.
Railroads owned a lot of the western land near prime transportation routes.
Railroads owned a lot of the western land near prime transportation routes.
Trans-Saharan trade routes were primarily land based, the Silk road was both land and sea.
Trans-Saharan trade routes were primarily land based, the Silk road was both land and sea.
European traders arrived in Southwest Asia around the first century after the birth of Jesus Christ. The Crusades would later make it difficult to trade with the Arabs and Europeans began to look for routes other than land routes.
Trade routes
yes