Sentence examples for arab trading from inspiring English sources

Islam, too, first came to South-East Asia on Arab trading dhows.

Nearby Lamu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the country's oldest continually inhabited town and a historic Arab trading port.

The Viking trade routes, especially those along the Russian river system, linked northern Europe to both the Arab trading network and the Byzantine Empire.

Following in the track of earlier Arab trading expeditions, the British explorers Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke reached the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858.

His description of Japan set a definite goal for Christopher Columbus in his journey in 1492, while his detailed localizations of spices encouraged Western merchants to seek out these areas and break the age-old Arab trading monopoly.

Before European colonization, virtually no villages or towns existed except along the coast, while urbanization was confined to fishing villages, Arab trading ports, and towns visited by dhows from the Arabian Peninsula and Asia.

Low-level Arab trade delegations have been slipping into Baghdad for some years now.

Madagascar was a main stop on Arab trade routes, and its tortoises left in droves.

These included European manufacturers, Arab trade brokers, Russian factories and Chinese state-owned companies.

Iraq's suppliers included Russian factories, Arab trade brokers, European manufacturers and state-owned companies from China and the Middle East.

Mirambo, an African chief who built for himself a temporary empire to the west of Tabora in the 1860s and '70s, effectively blocked the Arab trade routes when they refused to pay him tribute.