Abstract:

Progress of economy and society inseparably linked with an exchange of the goods, knowledge and technologies. That is why the world civilisation centres always arose and developed at crossroads of trading ways, whether it be sea, or overland. Lines of sea trading ways are widely known, and here earlier, overland have not been deservedly forgotten. Meanwhile, they played in due time defining role in mankind progress. Therefore in this article speech about caravans - east phenomenon of logistics will go.

Keywords: History, caravan, logistics