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Traders from India, increasingly adventurous as | HISTORY OF HINDUISM

Hinduism in southeast Asia

Traders from India, increasingly adventurous as seafarers from the 1st century AD, carry Hinduism through southeast Asia. On the mainland (Burma, Cambodia, the southern part of Vietnam) and in the islands (Sumatra, Java)...

Pinochet trades his relinquishing of power | HISTORY OF CHILE

Pinochet

Pinochet trades his relinquishing of power for measures designed to protect him from reprisals for acts committed during his regime - including, for example, a guaranteed lifetime seat in the Chilean senate. These arrang...

American trade is at the same | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Freedom of the seas

American trade is at the same time damaged by Britain's orders in council, which impose crippling restrictions on goods carried by neutral shipping (in response to Napoleon's similar continental system). Thomas Jefferson...

The traders of Marseilles extend a | HISTORY OF FRANCE

Marseilles and the Romans

The traders of Marseilles extend a network of colonies along the coast, and so become the commercial rivals of the Carthaginians, the successors of the Phoenicians in Spain. This makes Marseilles the natural ally of Rome...

This African trade, together with the | HISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

The Slave Coast:

This African trade, together with the prosperity of the Cape Verde Islands, expands greatly with the development of labour-intensive plantations growing sugar, cotton and tobacco in the Caribbean and America. The Portugu...

The great trade routes to the | HISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Forest kingdoms, west Africa

The great trade routes to the north, through the kingdoms first of Ghana and then of Mali and Gao, gradually provide a market for the produce of the forest regions of west Africa.

Unlike the open savannah of th...

The great trade routes to the | HISTORY OF AFRICA

Forest kingdoms, west Africa

The great trade routes to the north, through the kingdoms first of Ghana and then of Mali and Gao, gradually provide a market for the produce of the forest regions of west Africa.

Unlike the open savannah of th...

Captured by slave traders in regions | HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE

Slavery and freedom

Captured by slave traders in regions throughout west Africa, the recaptives have not even a common language. Anglican and Methodist missionaries in Freetown achieve the task of providing them with a shared culture, in th...

Mungo Park, by trade a ship`s | HISTORY OF EXPLORATION

Mungo Park and the Niger

Mungo Park, by trade a ship's surgeon, hears of the African Association's interest in the Niger and in 1794 offers his services as an explorer. From June 1795 he travels 200 miles up the river Gambia and then sets off ov...

The links of trade and finance | HISTORY OF PAINTING

Bruges and Italy

The links of trade and finance between cities in Italy and the Netherlands have been immortalized in two works of art. Giovanni Arnolfini is a merchant from Lucca living and trading in Bruges. In 1434, when newly married...

The links of trade and finance | HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE

Bruges and Italy

The links of trade and finance between cities in Italy and the Netherlands have been immortalized in two works of art. Giovanni Arnolfini is a merchant from Lucca living and trading in Bruges. In 1434, when newly married...

The links of trade and finance | HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS

Bruges and Italy

The links of trade and finance between cities in Italy and the Netherlands have been immortalized in two works of art. Giovanni Arnolfini is a merchant from Lucca living and trading in Bruges. In 1434, when newly married...

Although Portuguese missionaries and traders occasionally | HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE

The Ndebele kingdom

Although Portuguese missionaries and traders occasionally make their way inland from the coast, they have little effect on the African tribes living in the region of modern Zimbabwe. It is Europeans from southern Africa...

In his policy on trade Pitt | HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (from 1707)

Funds and tariffs

In his policy on trade Pitt is up to date in following the ideas of Adam Smith. Rejecting the protectionism of mercantile economics, he attempts in 1785 to bring Ireland into a free-trade commercial union with Britain. I...

The great value of trade from | HISTORY OF BOATS AND SHIPS

East Indiamen

The great value of trade from India and the East Indies prompts the various East India companies - and particularly those of England and Holland - to invest in magnificent ocean-going merchant ships. They need to be capa...