Sentences with phrase «of trade routes connecting»

The existence of trade routes connecting Syria with China, India and Tibet offered great opportunities.

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The original Silk Road was an ancient series of maritime and overland trade routes that connected Asia to Western Europe and beyond.

For thousands of years, what's called the Silk Road was a group of land and sea trade routes that connected the Far East with South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe.

Over the past decade, dozens of regional research programs have developed in coastal Africa, and connected with peers in Europe and Asia, in a way re-creating the trade routes they study.

Three new commissions will feature in an exhibition curated by Sharjah Art Foundation president and director Hoor Al Qasimi, with allusions to trade in the Arabian Gulf, an imperial air route that connected London and Karachi, and a brand of dark humor that emerged during a recent Algerian war.

This ancient way connected China to other parts of Asia as well as Europe and North Africa, was not as its names suggests one single road, but an extensive network of trading routes.

And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge — but not without significant repercussions to climate, according to a U.S. and Canadian research team that includes a University of Delaware scientist.