Friday! This week, we're going to look at the difficult logistics of large armies on the move in a pre-modern society, as well as the impossible logistics of feeding a large city at long distance overland. All this, plus Game of Thrones nitpicking!https://acoup.blog/2019/10/04/collections-the-preposterous-logistics-of-the-loot-train-battle-game-of-thrones-s7e4/ …
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Obviously it varies a fair bit. One rule of thumb we lean on in Roman history is that the Price Edict of Diocletian (an attempt at state-run price fixing) was that travel costs by road:river:sea were 20:4:1 (sea travel is roughly twenty times cheaper than road).
For the Roman world, one of the longest major bulk-good shipment pattern I can think of is grain from Egypt to Rome - that's massive bulk goods moving c. 1600 miles (once you account for coastlines and wind). So you could sea-transport bulk goods a long way.
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That said, Westeros' geography is just...very hostile to long distance trade. I'm not the first person to point this out - Westeros should be much more fractured - econ. polit. and culturally - than it is.
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I should note in talking about longest major bulk goods route, I'm leaning heavily on 'major' - amphora from *everywhere* in the Roman world show up in all kinds of crazy places, probably after making multiple hops to get there.
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