Sentences with phrase «sea trading routes»

The result is large Chinese infrastructure investments to expand both land and sea trading routes throughout that part of the world, in which 60 % of the world's population resides.

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.

But a second domestication in ancient Egypt, before the first millennium B.C., proved more successful: This later lineage spread rapidly around the world via land and sea trade routes — and eventually took over the internet.

Marco Gonzalas was probably a very nice Mayan resort as well as an important town on major sea trade routes.

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The South China Sea, which is home to more than 200 specks of land, serves as a gateway to global sea routes where approximately $ 3.4 trillion of trade passes annualSea, which is home to more than 200 specks of land, serves as a gateway to global sea routes where approximately $ 3.4 trillion of trade passes annualsea routes where approximately $ 3.4 trillion of trade passes annually.

China claims most of the South China Sea, an important trade route which is believed to contain large quantities of oil and natural gas, and has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and air strips.

This sea is also a major shipping route, the disruption of which would interrupt vital supply lines of energy, food and other trade with serious impacts on the regional and global economies.

The sea route from Egypt to India became very vital for the Roman trade and Augustus had to take steps to ensure its safety.

It was only natural that the Romans should direct their great efforts towards an active and direct trade by a cheap, quick and tolerably safe route by sea.

A thousand years ago sea routes linked empires in trade; during the 20th century markets and manufacturing have become truly global.

Rick writes: «White Gold or Mayan Sea Salt has been the subject of numerous books and scholarly papers written about the trade routes of the ancient Mayans.

The wind speeds and directions predicted by the climate model explain phenomena such as the dominance of the seas by the Iron Fleet, the likely attack plans of invading dragon hordes from Essos, and the trading routes between Westeros and the Free cities across the Narrow Sea.

An oasis on the Silk Road trading route, the sea once covered more than 26,000 square miles across the heart of Central Asia, including parts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

«Sailing Sinbad's Seas,» published in the 27 June 2014 issue of the journal, describes how these immensely important but overlooked trade routes are being retraced in archaeological sites ranging from East Africa to Sri Lanka to Cambodia.

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.

«Our study provides the earliest directly dated evidence for the presence of chickens in Africa and points to the significance of Red Sea and East African trade routes in the introduction of the chicken,» said Helina Woldekiros, lead author and a postdoctoral anthropology researcher in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

From the eighth century onward, the Indian Ocean was the scene of extensive trade of sub-Saharan African slaves via sea routes controlled by Muslim Arab and Swahili traders.

San Miguelito's ideal location, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea and near the Nichupté Lagoon, facilitated its residents» involvement in the ancient Mayan system of trade and allowed them to make use of routes around the lagoons, reefs and mangroves.

With access to land and sea routes it was an important trading hub for the area.

Players will venture out to explore the sea, establish trade routes, seek treasure, hunt monsters, and experience full - scale naval warfare.

In addition to adding new treasure - filled sea areas and a harbor that connects to new territory, the Margoria Expansion will introduce underwater monster hunting, ship construction, over 100 new quests, guild - versus - guild naval combat — the best way to establish dominance on the new trade routes — and more.

New harbors and ocean — Establish lucrative trade routes as the trading system expands to the open seas

Beluga has two other ships carrying goods along the northern sea route this summer, and the expectation is that such trade will expand given projections of Arctic summers with ever more open water and less sea ice.

This aims to catalyse an infrastructure boom through countries along the ancient land and sea silk trading routes, which link China to central and south Asia and the Middle East.

However, this gain will be offset when the volume of trade increases because of the shorter sea route, making climate change slightly worse.

The new sea route will alter world trade, making northern countries richer, but causing serious problems for Egypt, which will lose a large chunk of revenue currently gained from ships coming through the Suez Canal.

LONDON, 4 August, 2015 — The disappearing Arctic ice cap will boost trade between north - west Europe and countries such as China, Japan and South Korea by making the sea routes far shorter, according to economic analysts.

The Northern Sea Route can cut the trip between Europe and Asia and North America in half, but, as Eva Hollandreported for Pacific Standard last year, Arctic trade routes were once only a pipe dream:

In the new study, published today in Environmental Research Letters, researchers from Russia used climate models of sea - ice concentrations to predict what will happen to one optimal trade route along the Northern Sea Route in the futusea - ice concentrations to predict what will happen to one optimal trade route along the Northern Sea Route in the futuSea Route in the future.

It talked about Russia building out towns on the north caost of Siberia and setting up a sea trade along the route for the ice free months.

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.

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesday's Breitbart News Tonight that China could «choke off trade» and «control access» to a critical maritime trade route if allowed to control the South China Sea.

Rising temperatures and the receding sea ice reveal untapped natural resources and lucrative new trade routes.

The firm, led by senior partner and founder Per Magnusson (pictured), also this year expanded into Hong Kong as it looks to capitalise on trade routes between Asia and the Baltic Sea region.