Sentence examples for ocean trade from inspiring English sources

Ocean trade also can reach Concepción del Uruguay directly by the Uruguay River.

This city was a nexus point for Indian Ocean trade and a site of encounter for many hundreds of years.

Much of the Indian Ocean trade was local and, until the Portuguese incursion, had been conducted by Arabs or at least by Muslims.

Zanzibar's history was greatly shaped by its geography, the prevailing winds of the region placing it directly on the Indian Ocean trade routes and making it accessible to both traders and colonists from Arabia, south Asia, and the African mainland.

Mediterranean lands lost their commercial function as intermediaries between Europe and Asia, and, for more than two and a half centuries, the Mediterranean Sea remained a backwater of world ocean trade and traffic.

It was important as an outlet for ivory and slaves, as a way station for Indian Ocean trade, and as an avenue of approach to South African diamond fields and goldfields.

People from the Middle East, Asia and Europe have visited the Indian Ocean trading center for thousands of years.

These contacts diminished with the rise of Islam, and the east coast became part of the Indian Ocean trading network.

Malacca also served as the regional centre for the propagation of Islam and as the eastern terminus of the Indian Ocean trading network.

The dissemination of Islam was intimately linked to the florescence of the great Indian Ocean trading routes that connected China through the Strait of Malacca to India, the Middle East, and eastern Africa.

In 2010 he was one of eight Nigerian historians to contribute to Slavery and Slave Trade in Nigeria, which made the case that the traditional academic focus on the external slave trade, particularly the trans-Atlantic trade to Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, had underplayed the importance of the much older indigenous trans-Saharan and trans-Indian Ocean trades.