Famous trading routes...

[Arjos]

Just wanted to post some important routes, that imo should get ingame representation akin to the silk and amber ones...

Coral route

In the same degree that people in our part of the world set a value upon the pearls of India—a subject on which we have already spoken on the appropriate occasion at sufficient length—do the people of India prize coral: it being the prevailing taste in each nation respectively that constitutes the value of things. Coral is produced in the Red Sea also, but of a more swarthy hue than ours. It is to be found also in the Persian Gulf, where it is known by the name of "iace." But the most highly-esteemed of all, is that produced in the vicinity of the islands called Stœchades, in the Gallic Gulf, and near the Æolian Islands and the town of Drepana in the Sea of Sicily. Coral is to be found growing, too, at Graviscæ, and off the coast of Neapolis in Campania: as also at Erythræ, where it is intensely red, but soft, and consequently little valued. ... Before it was known in what estimation coral was held by the people of India, the Gauls were in the habit of adorning their swords, shields, and helmets with it; but at the present day, owing to the value set upon it as an article of exportation, it has become so extremely rare, that it is seldom to be seen even in the regions that produce it.

To add the evidences that speak the most for this are the LaTene artifacts themselves...
The route should go from Neapolis to the Bouiori heartland, the route which later would become the "new" amber road; and one from Massalia, following the Rhone, to the Moselle area...

Spice route

Among the plants that grow in Arabia Syria and
India the aromatic plants are somewhat exceptional
and distinct from the plants of other lands ; for
instance, frankincense myrrh cassia balsam of Mecca
cinnamon and all other such plants, about which we
have spoken at greater length elsewhere. So in

the parts towards the east and south there are these
special plants and many others besides.

This is a "world-wide" route and mostly a sea one, so don't know if it could be represented with harbour bonuses...
For the EB's map it stretches from the Indus, passes by the southern arabian coast, follows the Red Sea, and in the end reaches Alexandria and Phoenicia...
From those ports it spreads in all of the Mediterranean sea, but I think the most important parts should be the routes reaching this sea...
There are also land routes, for example from Berenike to Koptos in Egypt and the caravans cutting Nabatea, Alexandria supposedly was built to control this route and its exports...

Tin route

Tin, however, is not found there on the surface of the ground, he says, as the historians continually repeat, but is dug up; and it is produced both in the country of the barbarians who live beyond Lusitania, and in the Cassiterides Islands; and tin is brought to Massilia from the British Islands also. But among the Artabrians, who live farthest on the north-west of Lusitania, the soil "effloresces," he says, with silver, tin, and "white gold" (for it is mixed with silver). This soil, however, he adds, is brought by the streams; and the women scrape it up with shovels and wash it in sieves woven basket-like.

Like the spice route this is mainly on waterways, linking Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia to the commercial hubs of the western Mediterranean...

I think these were very important, even culturally speaking as they influenced all the people living near their paths, shaping customs and societies, making them a great addition to EBII...

[Moros]

One is (hopefully) soon to be previewed.

[Arjos]

Awesome to hear that :)

[Blxz]

I would guess the one would be the spice route. Consiering that on the twitter discussion thread someone previewed the pepper icon. Seems some of the team have been working on the spice trade recently.