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The problem with "trade" is that you buy things where they are plentiful and take them to someplace where they are scarce. The problem is MOVING your stuff from there to there. Wagons are slow, especially where there are few roads. Water transport is easy; a boat can carry a LOT of cargo, but only where the water goes.

Hence, canals. This is a way to bring enormous loads of cargo, quickly and inexpensively, from far-away manufacturers and farms to cities that need stuff and food.

Railroads are easier to build, but don't carry as much as a canal barge, but they served the same purpose; bring stuff from the maker to the user.

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