What and what is called traditional transportation

Ships and horses are called traditional means of transportation

South boats and north horses in China's ancient mode of transportation is the south to the ship-based, the north to the horse-based. The reason is that the southern climate is humid, abundant precipitation, the surface of the river network is dense, so in order to adapt to the "water town" ship transportation came into being. The northern more arid, semi-arid climate, extensive pasture, developed animal husbandry, horses, in addition to providing dairy products, but also to its endurance, fast and domesticated by the people of the north as a means of transportation in the northern part of the earth.