The land of Jordan lies along an ancient and well-used trade route, making it geographically valuable. |
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He traveled no farther than four miles outside of Nevaharday by way of the trade route. |
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It first prospered as a stop at the edge of a desert stretch of The Silk Road, the ancient overland trade route between China and Europe. |
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Pearl Pass is the trade route between the two areas, used since the late 1800's by miners and mail carriers. |
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Burma also represented a possible overland trade route to China. |
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Due to this situation Oman controlled the oldest maritime trade route between the Arab Gulf and the Indian Ocean. |
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In the Middle Ages there used to be something called the Silk Road, which was an overland trade route that ran from the Atlantic shores of Morocco to the Great Wall of China. |
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Some forty castles were constructed between Bingen and Koblenz, as symbols of power and also as customs stations on this flourishing trade route. |
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But usually that sort of deal unblocks one trade route only to silt up its tributaries. The high altitudes appear not to be addling minds. |
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The search for fish, whale oil, and furs and a trade route to China has been succeeded by exploration for mineral resources and more recently by strategic military occupation. |
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The course covers a historic trade route, following in the footsteps of the clippers that imported coffee from Brazil into France. |
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It is in an enviable geographic location, near one of the world's largest markets, and on a very busy trade route. |
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Lying along the medieval Silk Road trade route, the Turkistani oases were open to musical crosscurrents. |
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The Nabataeans established a base here in the 1st century AD as a staging post on the trade route between Damascus and the south. |
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At that time, plans were made to establish the City on the silk trade route between Asia and North America. |
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It was close to a Wendish fishing village on the seacoast, along an old trade route, the Via Regia. |
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Besides providing them with the necessities of life, the river also served as an important trade route for those that lived along its banks. |
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The dotted line remained yellow if you could not establish a trade route and became green when you could. |
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The river was the key segment of the transcontinental fur trade route which opened up Western Canada. |
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For almost half a century, from 1811 to the mid 1850s, the Athabasca Pass was part of the main fur trade route between Canada and the Oregon Country. |
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Context: The cement plant in Davenport, Iowa, is located on the banks of the Mississippi and ships part of its production along this major trade route. |
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The disease needs particularly careful management in this region because Garissa is a key trade route, so the disease could spread rapidly if not properly controlled. |
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Jacques Cartier was a professional navigator with many voyages behind him before he was commissioned by King Francis I of France to strike out in search of a short trade route from Europe to Asia. |
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In 1870 Portugal ended the last trade route with the Americas where the last country to import slaves was Brazil. |
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This trade route established ties between Cuban and Colombian organized crime. |
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This trade route brought great prosperity to some of the social sectors of the islands. |
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They drove out the Dutch, because Holland wanted to favour Bruges as a huge staple market at the end of a trade route. |
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For centuries, European explorers sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route to Asia. |
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The Amber Road was a European trade route associated with the trade and transport of amber. |
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The larger rivers are navigable up to the fall line, providing a trade route for mill towns. |
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Until the late 19th century the river was an important part of the trade route for the export of Purbeck Ball Clay from the Isle of Purbeck. |
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Shillington proceeds to identify this trade route as the source for West African iron smelting. |
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The Greeks used the Aeolian as ports on the trade route between the Aegean and the Tyrrhenian sea and built their acropolis on the hill, where I still see the remains Neolithic and Classical period. |
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When Alexander Mackenzie came this way over 200 years ago, it must have been a very well trodden trail, as this was the main fur trade route to the west. |
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Furthermore, Prince Rupert's location on the shortest land-sea route between Asia and the US Industrial Heartland makes the port a strategically significant trade route in the movement of containers. |
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Prince Rupert's location as the shortest land-sea route between Asia and the U. S. industrial heartland makes the port a strategically significant trans-continental trade route in the movement of containers. |
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Bactria assumed key importance between 600 BC and 600 AD because of its strategic location on the Silk Road, which was not only a trade route between East and West but also a vehicle for artistic and religious exchanges. |
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In the mid-19th century the Tibetans repeatedly rebuffed overtures from the British, who saw Tibet at first as a trade route to China and later as countenancing Russian advances that might endanger India. |
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Bisotun is located along the ancient trade route linking the Iranian high plateau with Mesopotamia and features remains from the prehistoric times to the Median, Achaemenid, Sassanian, and Ilkhanid periods. |
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A major fur trade route, the valley also has close connections with the surveying and mapping of western Canada, and with the building of railways and roads which have linked this country from east to west. |
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In 1808 David Thompson travelled from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta to Fort William, now Thunder Bay, Ontario to report the opening of a trans-mountain trade route through the Rocky Mountains. |
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So the trade route remains the preferred option. |
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The problem isn't with a single trade route. |
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English trade profited by Canute's control of the Baltic trade route. |
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It became a town in 1586 and derived importance from this trade route. |
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The whole philosophy of this traditional fair trade route is based upon using fair trade principles as the foundation for commercial relationships with producers and suppliers in developing countries. |
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They found that this geographical corridor was already occupied by the Aboriginal peoples, who had been the first to realize its value as a trade route. |
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While it is vague in nature, I am particularly concerned for my riding, which has been part of a historical trade route for hundreds of years, that some access would be denied. |
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In 1204 the forces of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople, making the Dnieper trade route marginal. |
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In 1565, the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route. |
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During the Middle Ages, the Red Sea was an important part of the spice trade route. |
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The Han army regularly policed the trade route against nomadic bandit forces generally identified as Xiongnu. |
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The ports were fundamental for overseas trade, stretching a trade route from Asia, through the Manila Galleon to the Spanish mainland. |
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From there, trade routes went to the Pacific coast, where the longer Pacific Coast communication and trade route existed. |
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These regions were connected via the Silk Road trade route, and they have a pronounced Iron Age period following the Bronze Age. |
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Between the 15th and early 18th centuries, the White Sea served as the major trade route in and out of Russia. |
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The rough geographical outlines of this same trade route would dominate the pepper trade into Europe for a millennium and a half to come. |
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This was the original trade route between Coniston village and the settlements of the Duddon Valley and is a public restricted byway. |
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The Chesterfield Canal linked the town to the national network of waterways, and was the most important trade route through the 19th century. |
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Further east of the Fezzan with its trade route through the valley of Kaouar to Lake Chad, Libya was impassable due to its lack of oases and fierce sandstorms. |
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This trade route was somewhat less efficient and only rose to great prominence when there was turmoil in the west such as during the Almohad conquests. |
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The Directory agreed in order to secure a trade route to India. |
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The route between Veracruz and the Spanish capital of Mexico City, built on the site of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, was the key trade route during the colonial era. |
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The states controlling the Via Maris were in a position to grant access for trade to their own citizens and collect tolls from the outsiders to maintain the trade route. |
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With an eastern sea route now under its control, Portugal was no longer interested in trailblazing a western trade route to Asia crossing unknown seas. |
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According to Constantine VII, the Varangians used boats on their trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, along Dniester and Dnieper and along the Black Sea shore. |
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With ships sailing directly to the Malabar coast, black pepper was now travelling a shorter trade route than long pepper, and the prices reflected it. |
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The Baltic Sea is the main trade route for export of Russian petroleum. |
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King John II of Portugal appointed him, on October 10, 1486, to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India. |
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The growth of the city of Aoudaghost, founded in the 5th century BCE, was stimulated by its position at the southern end of a trans Saharan trade route. |
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The Chinese took great interest in the safety of their trade products and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the trade route. |
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By the Treaty of Nerchinsk, Russia ceded its claims to the Amur Valley, but it gained access to the region east of Lake Baikal and the trade route to Beijing. |
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Now in control of the sole spice trade route that existed at the time, the Ottoman Empire was in a favorable position to charge hefty taxes on merchandise bound for the west. |
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The Mongols had cut off the trade route, the Silk Road, between China and Europe which halted the spread of the Black Death from eastern Russia to Western Europe. |
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