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Q: Why did people travel in caravans?
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How did people travel to Mexico in the past?

People would often travel to Mexico in caravans. Caravans are groups of people going to a place in a group. They did this so that bandits or robbers would most likely notice the large group and not bother them.


How did people travel to trading posts along the Santa Fe Trail?

People traveled in wagon caravans.


What roads did Mormons travel that they needed to travel in caravans and had little food?

None. Caravans are used in the Sahara Desert with camels.


Why did the traders travel in caravans?

For protection from bandits.


How would you travel to rome from England in 150 AD?

You would travel by camels in large caravans (groups of camels). Great caravans were as big as 5,00 thousand camels going all together. The distance people could travel by camel in one hour was called a schoeni.


What animal travel from place to place in their caravans?

Camels


Why did merchants need to travel in armed caravans?

for safty


Do gypsy caravans travel the US?

Yes they travel all over the world including the U.S.A.


What are caravans in Islam?

Caravans are groups of manned camels with goods that travel in unison. They have no special meaning within Islam, but as Islam came out of Arabia, where there are numerous caravans, they play an important part of Islamic History.


How do Gypsies travel?

Traditionally, gypsies travelled by horse and cart- in traditional gypsy caravans or wagons. now they can travel in modern day caravans or even by more sophisticated means of transport such as trains or boats.


What was the purpose of caravans?

To transport things that are quite heavy especially in a long travel.


What do Mecca people drive in?

In the old days they travelled on Horses and Camels and caravans. It is now a modern city and people travel in cars, buses, taxi, bikes and more recently they have the railways.