Sentence examples for oceanic trade from inspiring English sources

Under Spanish colonial rule the island was largely neglected because of its limited mineral resources; however, the harbour at San Juan prospered as a major link in Spain's oceanic trade routes, and massive fortifications were built there.

Crisscrossing cultures in Europe, the Americas, Asia and India, this exhibition retraces the world's early oceanic trade routes, using examples of the fabrics and finished textiles that traveled along them, spreading ideas about design, technique and fashion that were imitated and adapted by people in far-flung locales.

Having landed supplies, Junon's return cargo was intended to improve the economic situation on Guadeloupe with much needed oceanic trade.

By the end of the 19th century, Vlisco's "wax hollandais" cloth was sold to Africans along the oceanic trading route back to Indonesia.

Whether Beijing will succeed in moving ever further toward unifying Asia, Africa, and Europe into that world island or Washington will persist with Obama's strategy of splitting that land mass along its axial divisions via trans-oceanic trade won't become clear for another decade or two.

In March, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) agreed to impose new rules on the trade in hammerhead, oceanic white tip and porbeagle sharks under which countries would have to prove their catch was sustainable before exporting it.

Security in Mogadishu and elsewhere depends on the AU's troops more than on Somalia's own forces.Somali pirates, whose oceanic depredations deter investment and trade on dry land, have been much less successful in the past year, thanks mainly to more effective protection of shipping convoys.

As merchant vessels, they plied mostly coastal trading routes, but oceanic voyages were not uncommon; some brigs were even used for whaling and sealing.

Objects created for religious, ritualistic or tribal reasons, like African fertility statues, pre-Columbian stone figures and Oceanic masks, are now routinely traded -- and admired -- as works of art.

Oceanic ports can help forge trading relationships with other parts of the world easily.

Oceanic commerce led Rhode Island into the slave trade, and its ships became the main American carriers of slaves.