The growth of inter-regional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies, including the caravanserai, forms of credit, and the development of money economies as well as the use of the compass, the astrolabe and larger ship designs.
Explanation:
Caravanserais, large guest houses for travelling merchants and their caravans, were dispersed along the land routes of the Silk Roads. ... By offering such an intercultural environment, caravanserai were important sites for the exchange of material culture, languages and ideas.
