Sentence examples for pepper trade from inspiring English sources

The economic basis of Aceh's position was the spice trade, and these conflicts grew out of Aceh's attempt to consolidate a monopoly over the pepper trade.

The farmers who sell their crops to him (for resale at the big market in Jewtown, which has replaced Calicut as the hub of Kerala's pepper trade) do so with the latest New York and Rotterdam prices in hand.

And when, at the Diet of Nuremberg, there was an attempt to break Fugger's hold on the pepper trade, he complained to Charles, in a letter that alluded to the loan.

The United States entered the pepper trade in 1797, when an intrepid New England clipper-ship captain named Jonathan Carnes completed a voyage from Salem, Mass., to Sumatra and back.

In an attempt to control the pepper trade in Sumatra, the VOC established footholds in western Sumatra and in Jambi and Palembang over the course of the 17th century, and it interfered in local conflicts in support of rulers who favoured it.

Correction: November 12 , 2003 Wednesday An article on Oct. 29 about the cultivation of pepper in southern India misstated the type of ship commanded by Jonathan Carnes, a sea captain who took the United States into the pepper trade with a voyage in the 1790's.

The trade in pepper reached a first peak under the Roman empire.

Cinnamon and elephants became articles of Portuguese monopoly; they provided good profits, as did the trade in pepper and betel nuts (areca nuts).

So when the Roman empire's economy began to struggle in the third century AD, he believes the trade in pepper reconfigured itself, and Muziris lost its importance.

Trading in pepper was reinstated this July but motorbikes are still banned, meaning the local population's movements are restricted.

Where Shane Black's The Nice Guys were bumbling dunces, McDonagh's pair trade wisecracks peppered with esoteric references to everyone from Simone de Beauvoir to realist painter Andrew Wyeth.