transoceanic trade network

C3246 concept

A transoceanic trade network is a system of interconnected maritime routes, ports, merchants, and institutions that facilitate the large-scale exchange of goods, people, capital, and ideas across oceans between distant regions of the world.

Observed surface forms (6)

  • historical trade network ×3
  • Spanish colonial trade network ×1
  • ancient trading region ×1
  • maritime trade network ×1
  • maritime trade route network ×1
  • pre-modern global trade system ×1

Instances (7)