Sentences with phrase «trade route into»

St Petersburg's planned location, although being the perfect trade route into Europe, was also on the banks of the River Neva and surrounded by swamp.

Not exact matches

While some deliberately targeted, researched and made inroads into particular markets, firms more often did so via acquisitions or serendipitous routes ranging from a meeting at a trade show to an employee's personal contacts and language skills, or a chance sale over the Internet.

The Jews» wanderings allowed them to establish trade - route networks among far - flung kinsmen; being forced into moneylending and merchandising established a tradition of economic literacy and experience that gave Jews portable skill sets.

The report's author, Dr Leslie Budd from the Open University, argued that as well as damaging Northern Ireland's attractiveness as an entry route into the single market, transaction costs for trading into the EU would «rise significantly» and inhibit economic co-operation with the neighbouring Irish Republic.

But new archaeological evidence hidden in a lofty tomb reveals that it also ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet — a previously unknown arm of the trade route.

And they had this wonderful thing where some of the things that they made were made out of materials that were transported from a long distance and scientists feel that could probably only take place in the presence of trade routes — trading from one group to another all the way along a path [to where it] finally winds up, because those materials were not available where they were found and where they had been manufactured into objects of, like, beads and that kind of thing.

Rapidly melting ice in the Far North alarms climatologists and lures nations into competition for newly accessible trade routes and resources.

When the first Europeans explored the river in 1609, they found in it an ideal trade route that penetrated into the continent.

A recent study completed at the University of Eastern Finland suggests that persons captured during raids into areas which today constitute parts of Finland, the Russian Karelia and the Baltic Countries ended up being sold on these remote trade routes.

It's a hypothetical scenario, but tempting because Kendall's chronology meshes neatly with a poorly understood period when Egypt lost control of Nubia's gold mines and lucrative trade routes to sub-Saharan Africa and plunged into a dark age of economic and political turmoil that lasted 350 years.

The fruit traveled westward from Kazakhstan along the historical trade route and came into contact with a type of European crabapple.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

The area was a major source of obsidian and the city may have played a military role alongside an important trade route from the Veracruz coast into the highlands.

Stenseth's team believe the 15 - year time lag between such crashes and the introduction of new plague - ridden fleas to Europe comprised three stages: a couple of years finding new hosts and coming into contact with humans, around 10 years travelling westward along trade routes such as the Silk Road, and finally the plague's reintroduction to Europe via marine trading harbours.

Teachers could assist students in undertaking research into, for example, traditional trading routes in the local area.

Eventually, as trade routes expanded and countries changed hands, the Tenerife Terrier traveled to the Continent and evolved into the Bichon Frisé of today.

From France into Italy, you'll follow an ancient trade route on a winding trail that brings you through quaint Italian villages and climbs to breathless heights, where the sharp snowcapped peaks of the Alps frame deep valleys and golden meadows.

In 1972, Jacques Cousteau took his famous research ship, Calypso into the Blue Hole, pioneering a route that is still used by the dive trade today.

They may well have taken over existing trade routes and consolidated them into one great network.

The good news is that once you figure out a good balance of buy / sell prices, you can simply hit a button to transfer those settings to each city on the route, and unless you really want to delve into the intricacies of trading in order to maximise profit you can use exactly the same settings for any convoy, regardless of where they're going.

«We don't know if people will spread evenly out across the universe, or whether they're going to corral into areas that have already been explored, whether they will form little trade routes, little strips of familiar worlds, going from the outside edge like the spokes of a wheel toward the centre of the galaxy... or whether it will be totally random.»

However, these cards can also be «razed» (thrown away) for a quick jolt of resources, or turned into trade routes (which allows players to pursue a steady resource stream).

Due to the way certain mechanics, such as trade routes, population and combat play into each other along with faction differences, the game plays different enough during each play - through that you'll want to continue playing after your first campaign.

Featuring gameplay that requires you work up from the bare stone age into the technological future, Rise of Nations allows gamers to pick a favorite nation such as the Mayans or Persians, and allow them to create prosperous trade routes, crafty negotiations and all powerful armies on their quest for victory.

You'll be setting up trade routes, building production facilities and bringing cites into fruition.

2012 The Progress of Love, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria; touring to The Menil Collection, Texas, USA; The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 2012 The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2012 Happening to Be, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, England * 2012 * The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany 2012 Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, and Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 2012 Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, England 2012 Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 2012 Déjà - vu?

The broad and powerful Bosphorus defines Istanbul, splitting the city into two continents and solidifying its importance over centuries as a transit and trading route.

Having initially planned on becoming a solicitor, Jenny found her niche in brands and trade marks and decided to follow a non-traditional route into this specialist area of law, joining Carl Steele as a registered trade mark attorney in Ashfords» IP Team.

Globalization of commerce has transformed many national mega-firms into international colossi, as lawyers follow trade routes, including to nations where the rule of law is iffy at best, like China and Russia.

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.

The U.S. bank already allows its customers to enter into Bitcoin transactions powered by an exchange - traded note involving routing of their orders to the exchanges.

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced an ambitious idea: to revive the ancient trade routes that stretched from China through the Middle East and into Europe, and thus create a New Silk Road.