Sentence examples similar to a prospering trade from inspiring English sources

It was not until the Hellenistic rule of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies that the country prospered, trade increased, and new towns were built.

People slept in the streets, and a drug trade prospered among boarded up historic sites.

Beginning as a suburb of La Paz, it became a gateway for rural migrants coming to the city, a meeting place of miners, farmers and young entrepreneurs prospering from trade connections with east Asia.

For an economy that has prospered through trade, that looks like a self-defeating strategy.Commerce itself is no guarantee of peace: a century ago Europe took to the trenches even though Britain was Germany's largest export market.

During the next 200 years the city prospered as a trade and shipping centre but declined after the German Hanseatic merchants gained control of northern Europe's trade and made Bergen their chief port.

But he suggested the UK would also prosper in a "trade zone" outside it.

Lord Ashley was one of the advocates of the view that England would prosper through trade and that colonies could play an important role in promoting trade.

Eighteenth-century Europe was a period of rapid expansion as towns and ports prospered through trade, business and empire.

In the 10th century both Venice and Genoa began to prosper through trade in the Levant.

Southerners, bankers, and the rich prospered; Northerners, trade unionists, and the poor did not.

It prospered from trade with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians but was probably destroyed by the latter about 500 bc.