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The number one means of travel and transport in the middle ages was walking.

Horses were used both as mounts and beast of burden. Horses were quite expensive, especially horses that were fit for military service. Long distance trade used primarily pack horses rather than carts or wagons for transport because of the unreliability of the condition of roads. Carts, both hand carts and horse drawn carts, were used on the local level for transportation of cargo, however. But in many cases porters were hired to simply carry goods.

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