Sentences with phrase «trading routes»

A growing number of settlements also led to armed disputes over water rights, agricultural and pasture land, and control of trade routes.

History has always been primarily made along trade routes.

Then, when another clan arrives to negotiate trade routes with you, there's no way for you to check where the clan actually lives or where the proposed route would run.

Feel like making yourself wealthy, start by running small, but lucrative trade routes in hostile systems.

Players can build and raise cities, establish trade routes, and manage their growing steam fleet in a world of railway commerce.

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.

Q: Have you visited any historic towns that were part of the old Asian trading route?

It gives you plenty of time to buy and sell goods to other towns via trade routes, though you can pause the simulation if you really need more time.

There's no real impetus to build a town or set - up trade routes because it barely affects the single - player campaign.

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

As in the south, the larger cities probably controlled extensive regions with vital trade routes.

You get to research technologies, create a religion, build trade routes, an army, and more.

Human conflict happens when trade routes get blocked, or at least, altered without mutual consent.

If you manage to keep a good trade route going you are occasionally visited by traders who usually have something special ready for you to purchase.

Explore how trade routes inspired and influenced art over time and across the Asian continent.

Hand drawn maps of waterways and trade routes take up residence on two other walls.

Born in the Mediterranean in the days of ancient exploration and the opening of trade routes between east and west, the Bichon is a healthy breed, hardier than his powder - puff appearance suggests to the casual observer.

The great Silk Road trading route from Eastern China to the Mediterranean winded its way through the deserts of Uzbekistan, leading to the building of sprawling trading cities, rich and opulent.

Dubai Creek or Khor Dubai is a natural bay which has a direct connection with the Arabian Gulf, still an important trade route for merchants from India, Somalia and Iran.

The site lies near Klis, a narrow pass in the Dinaric Alps that was once an important trade route between Europe and the Near East.

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.

On a promontory high above the sweeping grasslands of the Georgian steppe, a medieval church marks the spot where humans have come and gone along Silk Road trade routes for thousands of years.

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.

You'll have to be careful with the anti-action on climate change crowd on this - I wouldn't at all be surprised if they spin this information and use it to promote the benefits of shorter trade routes through the Arctic circle.

We are in the midst of an economic revolution that is the most important event in economic history since trade routes opened from Europe to Asia.

«Some of the reforms to be implemented to ease the process of starting a business include eliminating the manual registration process at Corporate Affairs Commission in 10 additional states, increase access to credit for SMEs by registering at least 300 microfinance banks on the collateral registry, and enforce the elimination of illegal roadblocks on major trading routes across the country.

Experience the ancient trading routes by paddling among mangrove mazes and calm waters in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, one of the world's most remote and exciting places.

From the paradisiacal San Blas Islands to the cobbled streets of colonial Casco Viejo to a boat trip down the international trading route for which many a leisure travel and business traveler alike know the country and its name, Panamá is world - class, and not to be missed.

Ideally situated along Southeast Asia's illustrious Silk Pathway - the historical trade route linking eastern cultures to the west, Khaolak Sunset Resort offers truly modern amenities while capturing the spirit of ancient times in it's distinctive southern architecture and friendly customs.

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

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.

Falling commodity prices are discouraging exploration for Arctic oil and gas, while new trade routes across the top of the world are falling short of expectations.

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 arresting image suggests that capitalism and business as we know it today is a direct result of the VOC's often - aggressive dominance of spice trade routes with the East.»

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.

Ammon provided several natural resources to the region, including sandstone and limestone, along with a productive agricultural sector that made Ammon a vital location along the King's Highway, the ancient trade route connecting Egypt with...

One such trade route is the maritime path for transporting oil from Persian Gulf exporters to East Asian consumers.

Meanwhile, trade routes provided financial and communications infrastructures; later the Industrial Revolution and nation - state concept added complexities making communication channels more difficult to analyze.

For instance, shorter trade routes through the Arctic could be a boon to export - driven nations like China (discussed further below).

With a terrain described as dramatic — «more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site» — perhaps portenos could not find a way inside its depths.

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.

New York, London, Berlin — all are familiar names on the global trade routes of contemporary art.

The previously nomadic people rose to prominence in the third century B.C., when important Near Eastern trade routes fell under their control.

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

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

Travelling the ancient Silk Road, one of the greatest trade routes in history to Tamerlane's capital, ancient Khiva and Bukhara