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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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.
But that trade network is very reliant on favorable waterways - The Mediterranean, and major rivers punching inland from it create a vast common for trade in the Roman world that Westeros just doesn't have - no inland sea and all of the rivers point away from trade partners.