For safety. The 'silk road' was notorious for being patrolled by thieves and bandits. Merchants travelling in single file hide their numbers. It's harder to tell how many people are travelling together if they walk behind each other, as the footprints of the person in front are obscured by the next person.
They travelled together for protection, companionship and mutual aid.
To transport things that are quite heavy especially in a long travel.
so they dont get attacked by theives
traders would travel and they sell silk for jerks!!!
At first, the Chinese were welcomed. Lai Chun-Chuen, an early immigrant, observed that they "were received like guests" and "greeted with favor." In 1852, the governor of California praised Chinese immigrants as "one of the most worthy classes of our newly adopted citizens."
The biggest source for spreading Arabic in India were the Muslims who migrated from the Arab countries or Arab merchants who used to travel to India and who had established relationships with local Indians and there are many institutes in Pakistan nowadays which are propagating Arabic language as I had seen through merapakistan.com that there are many sites which explain the history of spread of Arabic in India.
for safty
because it was a trading center and it was close to the mongols.
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.
None. Caravans are used in the Sahara Desert with camels.
For protection from bandits.
Camels
Yes they travel all over the world including the U.S.A.
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.
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.
To transport things that are quite heavy especially in a long travel.
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.
the role of the merchants was to travel and bring goods to their cities