Sentences with phrase «trading outpost»

Only 20 years ago, Dubai was a desert - trading outpost.

Among these will be Shark Island, a new map where orcs have claimed an abandoned trading outpost near the banks of the Dusty River.

Other lifeforms will land in ships when you're on a space station or visiting a trading outpost, but while you can buy and sell items with them they'll never step outside of their spacecraft, remaining inside of their protective shells for no other reason than the developers didn't want them to step out.

Mandawa is a part of the Sekhawati region and was a trading outpost for the ancient caravan routes that stopped here en route to China and Middle East.

The area encompassing the reserve is deeply rooted in Mayan history, as it once served as a trading outpost with the neighboring Yucatán.

French Lick was named for an early French fur trading outpost and nearby salt lick.

Rather, the coast of Belize was dotted with trading outposts and pirate havens that were beyond the reach of any colonial power.

Even more importantly, it was at this time that Marco Gonzalez became a trade outpost for the great mainland center of Lamanai.

Not exact matches

Touches of the wider world sometimes impinge on Austen's peaceful outposts — Wickham, a soldier, plays a prominent role in Pride and Prejudice, there are passing references to the British colonies and the slave trade in Mansfield Park, and the British navy's preservation of England in the Napoleonic Wars is duly noted in Persuasion.

With his sumptuous new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Mitchell eschews the postmodern razzle - dazzle of Cloud Atlas and Number9Dream for a more straightforward, albeit exquisitely detailed, historical romance about a Dutch outpost in Nagasaki harbor at the turn of the 19th century and Japan's reluctant passage from isolation to trading partner of the West.

Kowloon Walled City has an interesting history that dates back from the Song Dynasty (960 — 1279) when it was established as an outpost for the trade of salt.

Bandit camps are just waiting to be raided, which will open up outposts and trading merchants at each one once they are rid of the bandits.

Players can increase their reputation by completing objectives for various NPC trading companies stationed at island outposts.

Miriam Gonzalez, London co-chair of the international trade and government regulation group at Dechert, which has an outpost in Dublin, said her firm has been beefing up its regulatory ranks during the past year in advance of the Brexit vote.