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The biggest problem of the transboundary trade network in every period of history has been the security issue. Ancient Assyrian tablets show that caravans moving between Assyria-Kaniš, the oldest and organized example of transboundary trade, encountered difficulties due to seasonal conditions along the way. Dangers such as the closure of roads due to wars and rebellions, the attacks of looters and wild animals seriously affected these commercial journeys that lasted for weeks and months. As it is understood from the texts, the issue of the safety of the roads used by the caravans is of great importance for the merchants of Semitic origin. Because the merchants made serious commercial partnerships between them in order to maintain their commercial ties with Anatolian cities, and in this context, they established business connections with the civilian people and kingdoms in the Anatolian market. Therefore, safe roads and trade were very important not only for Assyrian traders but also for local people and authorities. Because this cross-border trade had results in favor of both sides. The terms and concepts such as "the timidity of capital or the search for a safe haven of money” and political hear very often today and which affect everyone in terms of their economic consequences, are actually quite old in terms of trade and political history. In this study, it was evaluated how the importance of trade and road safety was reflected in Ancient Assyrian documents in terms of both the entrepreneurs involved in trade and the local kingdoms supporting this commercial organization in the Ancient Anatolian geography four thousand years ago.

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