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trading and goods
The Company maintained a store at which products of England could be purchased and brought in goods for the new merchants on the understanding that they refrain from trading in furs.
The Company of the Indies promised to send over a supply of Indian trading goods, and to price them more cheaply in terms of deerskins.
They were to promise fine presents to the loyal red men, as well as an abundant supply of trading goods at better prices than the opposition was offering.
They destroyed a trading house and pillaged the goods, and harassed French shipping on the Mississippi.
During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.
It is certain that the Venetians and others were active traders in Constantinople, making a living out of shipping goods between the Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer and the West, while also trading extensively with Byzantium and Egypt.
They had trading routes with Southeast Asia ( see Macassan contact with Australia ), and imported goods from as far afield as South and Western Australia.
To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.
Before the Industrial Revolution in the mid-to-late 19th century, demand for oriental goods remained the driving force behind European imperialism, and ( with the important exception of British East India Company rule in India ) the European stake in Asia remained confined largely to trading stations and strategic outposts necessary to protect trade.
The United States is Jamaica's most important trading partner: bilateral trade in goods in 2005 was over $ 2 billion.
Namibia is seeking to diversify its trading relationships away from its heavy dependence on South African goods and services.
It is known that ancient Nubia / Axum traded with India, and there is evidence that ships from Northeast Africa may have sailed back and forth between India / Sri Lanka and Nubia trading goods and even to Persia, Himyar and Rome.
The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.
In 1989, the United States was South Korea's largest and most important trading partner and South Korea was the seventh-largest market for United States goods and the second largest market for its agricultural products.
The company built two forts that are in ruins today: in 1628 on the face of Nassau Cove and 1639 at Nassau on the hill, as well as warehouses for goods destined for the mainland trading posts.
Local Afro-Portuguese often acted as middlemen, the Europeans advancing them goods and they trading them to the local people, most often for ivory.
Despite the departure of most Chinese nationals from Somalia in 1991, the two countries maintained a small trading relationship ; total trade volume in 2002 was US $ 3. 39 million, with Somalia exporting US $ 1. 56 million of goods to China and importing $ 1. 83 million.
Common trading terms used in shipping goods internationally include:
With the means of travel ( longships and open water ), their desire for goods led Scandinavian traders to explore and develop extensive trading partnerships in new territories.
They murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods.
* Spanish government lifts the restrictions against neutrals trading with the colonies, thus acknowledging Spain's inability to supply the colonies with needed goods and markets.
Apart from traditional self-sufficiency, trading became a principal facility of prehistoric people, who bartered what they had for goods and services from each other.
Its capital in the Republic, consisting of ships and goods in inventory, totaled 28 million guilders ; its capital in Asia, consisting of the liquid trading fund and goods en route to Europe, totaled 46 million guilders.

trading and came
John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.
The American Fur Company came to dominate trading in the area around the Great Lakes.
These came mainly as a result of the breakup of the Soviet trading bloc, which impeded the Republic's smooth transfer to a free-market economy.
His mother, Bouthayna Mohamed Mustapha Sheraqi, came from a wealthy farming and trading family and was also educated.
After intensive negotiations, it adopted the Kyoto Protocol, which outlined the greenhouse gas emissions reduction obligation for Annex I countries, along with what came to be known as Kyoto mechanisms such as emissions trading, clean development mechanism and joint implementation.
From 14 January to 19 January 1828, his boats attempted to land but could not due to the hostility shown by the islanders, but natives then came aboard his ship, " some trading occurred, a short vocabulary was compiled, and a map made.
From this time onward whaling and trading vessels came in increasing numbers.
Greek colonists came from Asia Minor in about the 7th century BC and established trading depots along the coast, including one, called Olbia, at Saint-Pierre de l ' Almanarre south of Hyères, to the east of Toulon.
By trading with Muslim states, Venice came to monopolise the spice trade in Europe between 1200 and 1500, through its dominance over Mediterranean seaways to ports such as Alexandria, after traditional overland connections were disrupted by Mongols and Turks.
The Phoenicians came originally from what is now Lebanon and founded a vast trading network in the Mediterranean.
Norway came under the influence of England, while the other Scandinavian countries and Poland were influenced by trading contacts with the Hanseatic League.
More importantly, they were used as trading posts with the indigenous peoples who came to the posts with furs from their trapping season.
Over the next few decades, more adventurers came to explore the estuary and the rivers that feed it, and to establish trading posts.
Montpellier came to prominence in the 12th century — as a trading centre, with trading links across the Mediterranean world, and a rich Jewish cultural life that flourished within traditions of tolerance of Muslims, Jews and Cathars — and later of its Protestants.
Many of these luxury artifacts were made from materials such as jade, obsidian and magnetite, which came from distant locations and suggest that early Olmec elites had access to an extensive trading network in Mesoamerica.
As in the East End, industries that were deemed too noisome to be carried on within the narrow confines of the City of London had been located here — one such that came to dominate central Bermondsey, away from the riverfront, was the processing and trading of leather and hides.
" Each video came with two " glow-in-the-Darkwing " trading cards.
About 1780, William Burnett came from New Jersey and established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River ( present-day site of St. Joseph ), and traded with indigenous peoples and French Canadians who lived in the area at that time.
A trading post, school, and mission were built and residents came to the settlement.
One emigrant road forked by Big Meadows — its north branch came directly to West Point, which was a thriving trading post prior to the gold discovery.
He came here to establish a trading post and to operate a ferry.
The Lingle Store was a popular gathering for people who came to town not only to do their trading but to visit as well.
Dodson was named after a merchant who operated a trading post and saloon there before the Great Northern Railway came through.

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