The camel, the "ship of the desert", was actually the most valuable pioneer before the beginning of the great voyages of discovery!

If you are trekking in the desert or in harsh environments like the desert, animals such as horses, donkeys, and cows do not have the strong ability like camels.

There is a reason why camels are called the ships of the desert: their humps can store fat as an energy source; their thick hair protects them from being baked by high temperatures; their tough mouths are not afraid of thorns and can eat plants that other animals cannot eat; they can even carry twice as much weight as cows and walk farther at twice the speed of cows. It is a completely overwhelming advantage, and it is much stronger than other animals. No large mammal has ever been better adapted to the desert than camels, and no animal is better suited to transporting goods in the desert than them. However, humans originally domesticated camels not to transport anything, but to drink camel milk.

Dromedary camels were domesticated by hunters living on the southern coast of Arabia. They kept the docile mother camels and their young in captivity. Because they lived on hunting, no one thought of developing other abilities of camels, so the captive camels were only responsible for providing camel milk. Later, the hunters gradually changed their living habits and turned into herders. When these herders needed to move around in search of pastures, the camels' famous carrying capacity gradually emerged.

Bactrian camels were domesticated by nomads living in Central Asia. Unlike the earliest dromedary camels, the purpose of domesticating Bactrian camels by nomads seems to be for transportation. Since Bactrian camels are better adapted to cold environments than dromedaries, they soon became the main force in the transnational transportation industry. It was then that camels really stepped onto the stage of influencing humans, because they used their feet to create the Silk Road that influenced human civilization. If there were no camels, who knows what kind of animal could fill this position? Or because there was not enough transportation capacity, the Silk Road would not have been large enough to influence the world.

The Silk Road is an important channel for human trade between the East and the West. On this road, camels not only helped humans complete direct commercial trade, but also assisted people in spreading and exchanging various advanced science and technology, and promoted the mutual influence of religions and customs.

Later, people were not satisfied with the carrying capacity of Bactrian camels, so they crossbred dromedaries and Bactrian camels to breed more powerful super dromedaries, some of which could even carry nearly 410 kilograms of cargo.

Some say that donkeys were the initiators of global trade, while camels were the promoters. They brought the wealth of Africa and Asia to places as far away as Europe. People have always remembered the importance of the Silk Road, and to this day there are still traditional activities along the Silk Road to commemorate it, such as camel races, camel beauty contests, and even tug-of-war competitions between people and camels. How many people would it take to pull a camel that can carry 410 kilograms?