Ali Rasoli

The Persian Gulf's special geographic location has made it as one of the main centers of economic exchanges and social relations between East Africa areas, the Indian Ocean and South East Asia, and has always been an important position in the competition between major regional powers and the world. The commercial routes of this period, according to the function that has been used in domestic and foreign trade, can be divided into two broad categories of inland and outbound. Inland trade roads, operating on local, urban and regional levels, had all the land routes, at best, to ports and beaches. So, along with economic necessities, military political considerations played an important role in flourishing the communication routes. In this regard, the military nature and their constant problems in the internal borders areas of the country, which were accompanied by constant reconnaissance and troop movements, caused that attention to roads with their commercial importance to merge and contributed to the development of roads and the growth of trade and there was a particular flourish in postal and communication activities during the Mongol era and to create security and stability in communication routes. The formation of the Mozafarid dynasty, which, due to historical circumstances, led to the attention to business and trade routes, the concentration of power and necessary security on the routes; and the interest and effort that the Mongols have given to business was the basis for the development of political, military, cultural and economic developments in the Persian Gulf in that period and the next century.