T R A D E -Will

The spread of goods and ideas is something that defines varying human societies, as it reveals how each group of people function with people different from themselves.  For most of history, in order to trade goods, people would strap their wares to a camel or horse and ride them for extended periods of times, until they reached their destination.  This was ever present along the silk road, as well as from Asia Minor to parts of Europe.  These trade routes that eventually carved up the world are crucial to human development, not just for the spread of goods and technology, but the spread of ideas both political and religious.  An example of this is the spread of buddhism throughout India and China, as well as the spread of Christianity and Zoroastrianism throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean. All in all, the idea of traveling in order to trade with other peoples, is eerily similar to the migration that human populations had, and still continue to do.  People are off searching for new lands to call home, new goods to find and at the end of the day, this underlying trait is ever present in human life.