Sentences with phrase «spice trading ship»
We visited the Scheepvaartmuseum, or the Netherlands Maritime Museum and went on board the Amsterdam, a replica of a Dutch spice trading ship that was built from 1985 to 1990.
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There had been trade entrepot before the VOC, the bulk cog (type of sea - going ship) trade in the Hanseatic League, but the VOC innovation was to pool capital to build giant spice freighters - more expensive than a merchant partnership could likely finance (and stand to lose at sea) on their own but more efficient than the cogs and focused on a trade good with more value.
These two - masted sailing ships were used by the skilled Bugis seafarers who, for centuries, plied the waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, trading in spices, gold and sandalwood.
In the 9th century, an Arabian trading ship, or dhow, sailed out from the Middle East to China laden with expensive spices and incense.
She created a series of digital prints on silk drawing upon historical depictions of the spice trade combined with her own drawings that are inspired by botanical research to illuminate the transhistoric weight of spices, silks and colors that have propelled forward countless caravans and ships in the birthing of globalization.