The strategic location of Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it would become a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of Native American, European, and African-American cultures in the region for the first two centuries of its existence.

After his pivotal role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company, Pierre Esprit Radisson, noted French explorer, was chief director of trade at Port Nelson during one of his sustained periods of service to England.

We believe that in order for the poverty cycle for the world ’ s one billion people who live in extreme poverty to be broken, free, but not exploitative, trade must play a pivotal role.

Flood became one of the pivotal figures in the sport's labor history when he refused to accept a trade following the 1969 season, ultimately appealing his case to the U. S. Supreme Court.

These dynasties ' unique Dravidian architectural style was introduced to build Angor Wat while Tamil cultural norms spread across the continent, their surviving epigraphic inscriptions recording domestic societal life and their pivotal role in Asian trade routes.

Earlier in 1954, Liddle was part of a pivotal, five-player trade, coming to the Giants with fellow left-handed pitcher Johnny Antonelli from the Braves in exchange for playoff hero Bobby Thomson.

He was pivotal in the opening of French trade in the Pacific and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hawaiian Catholic Church.

In ancient times, it played a pivotal part in the far-flung maritime trade between the Roman empire, South India and Sri Lanka.

Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and was a major contributor to the contemporary trade union and feminism movements in the US.

In the early 1780s, Chouteau played a pivotal role in trade between the village and Native American tribes.

These brothers serve as a perfect example of the pivotal role many northern colonies played in the American slave trade.

* The sack of Lindisfarne monastery by a fleet of opportunistic Vikings is a pivotal event in Charles Barnitz ' historical fantasy / adventure, The Deepest Sea ( 1996 )

He understood Christ's incarnation as a historical reality, and a pivotal point in human history, however.

Both houses of Congress responded with committee investigations and reports affirming the historical precedents for the Bank's constitutionality and its pivotal role in furnishing a uniform currency.

Founded February 22, 1838, from portions of surrounding counties, Mercer County has a historical impact that reaches back to the pivotal battles of the American Revolutionary War.

The two-volume historical novel saga White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Fox Sorceress ( 2009 ), and White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Storm God ( 2011 ) depict in detail the pivotal years 1160 – 1185 in Japan, as seen through the eyes of protagonist Seiko Fujiwara.

This pivotal event remains shrouded in mystery because its outcome has become an object of contention ( and considerable historical rewriting ) between pro-Vietnamese and anti-Vietnamese Khmer communist factions.

Her actual historical significance is disputed, although it is largely believed that Chen was pivotal in Wu Sangui's campaigns after the fall of the Ming.

Despite being a fictional hero, Sharpe is often portrayed as the driving force in a number of pivotal historical events.

In particular, the organ at the Jacobikirche, Hamburg, played a pivotal role in the organ reform movement beginning in 1925, as a series of conferences taking place at historical organ sites in Germany and Alsace was inaugurated there.

" First, the vigorous and open-eyed quality of children's creative acts gives these acts a redemptive role complementary to other positive forms of human expression ; Second, works by young artists are a vital yet largely unrecognized part of the cultural and historical record ; Third, a non-profit archival body committed to the aesthetic presentation and professional preservation of worldwide children's art holdings can play a pivotal role in raising the social, historical and aesthetic value of young people's creative acts "

The pivotal event of the book is an appearance of Jesus Christ to the Americas shortly after his resurrection.

The quick and decisive defeat of the Arab troops during the Six-Day War by Israeli troops constituted a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world.

Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.

Destinations for such pilgrims can include historic sites of national or cultural importance, and can be defined as places " of cultural significance: an artist's home, the location of a pivotal event or an iconic destination.

A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").

This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War.

The Tennis Court Oath () was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution.

1997 marked another major pivotal year for the event.

Later, he described this event as a pivotal moment which inspired the course of his teachings.

The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

However, like Manzikert, Myriokephalon was a pivotal event and following it the balance between the two powers in Anatolia gradually began to shift, for Manuel never again launched a strategically offensive campaign against the Turks and remained on the defensive.

The resulting 228 Incident became a pivotal event in the shaping of modern Taiwanese identity.

The event was pivotal for Borlaug's future.

The following year, the brutal suppression by Soviet forces of a large peaceful demonstration held in Tbilisi on April 4 – 9, 1989 proved to be a pivotal event in discrediting the continuation of Soviet rule over the country.

Focusing on key passages in the books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation, Lindsey originally suggested the possibility that these climactic events might play out in the 1980s, which he interpreted as one generation from the foundation of modern Israel in 1948, a pivotal event in most evangelical ( especially conservative evangelical ) schools of eschatological thought.

The deaths and the reaction to them has been described as a pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution when any " hope for compromise " between the protest movement and the Shah's regime was extinguished.

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was a pivotal event in Czechoslovakia's political development.

This was to be a pivotal event in the British Poetry Revival, bringing together poets who were separated geographically and in terms of poetic influences and encouraging them to support and publish each other's work.

The next year, she witnessed the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a pivotal event in her life.

She also referred to the Sponsorship scandal as " a pivotal event with a lasting impact " and " broke just about every rule in the book ".

The Battle of the Alamo ( February 23 – March 6, 1836 ) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.

But it was his conquest of Kalinga which proved to be the pivotal event of his life.