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The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop into a trade route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected.
Under their king Tinbarutan ibn Usfayshar, the Sanhaja Lamtuna erected ( or captured ) the citadel of Awdaghust, a critical stop on the trans-Saharan trade route.
After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055.
The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber.
From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.
A new trade route north was discovered, and Sabun outfitted royal caravans to take advantage of it.
There is also a route across Sudan, to the Red Sea, but very little trade goes this way.
This was overcome in 1843, when, with the help of William Le Lacheur, a Guernsey merchant and shipowner, a regular trade route was established.
Meanwhile, Cairo flourished as a centre of Islamic scholarship and a crossroads on the spice trade route among the civilizations in Afro-Eurasia.
Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans-Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush.
The Inga lived in the Sierra near present-day Quito between 9000 and 8000 BC along an ancient trade route.
Another factor in its establishment was its location on the trade route from Holland to Liège.
The east-west trade route went from Truso, along the Baltic Sea to Jutland, and from there inland by river to Hedeby, a large trading center in Jutland.
A coordinated group of princely states with a common interest in maintaining trade along the river routes, Kievan Rus ' controlled the trade route for furs, wax, and slaves between Scandinavia and the Byzantine Empire along the Volkhov and Dnieper Rivers.
The unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes this route and the ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India around AD 70.
Oualata was the southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade route and had recently become part of the Mali Empire.
He took over control of the city from the local ulema and quickly established control over the trade route between Herat and Iran, a large source of revenue.
In the 16th century, the Portuguese broke the monopoly of the Arabs and Italians of trade between Asia and Europe by the discovery of the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
By this time the Portuguese Empire had already lost its interest on the spice trade sea route because of the decreasing profitability of that business.
This trade route was apparently used with some regularity by about AD 1000.
Kanem was located at the southern end of the trans-Saharan trade route between Tripoli and the region of Lake Chad.

trade and from
So Meltzer learned a new trade from Banks, who supplied the town and the hotels with meat.
`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.
Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.
Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.
The existence of a public school vocational training program in trade and industry provides a base from which such needs can be filled.
As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.
To reduce further the flow of goods from England, the Company's local officials asked that its London authorities refrain from forwarding any more trade goods to these men.
These booze customers had until then been buying their supplies from the Sheldon, Saltis-McErlane, and Druggan-Lake gangs, and now they were competing for trade with the Torrio-Capone saloons ; ;
The revenue from O'Banion's Cicero territory went up still higher, until the yield was more than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago's South and West Sides.
Nevertheless, it is from the Selden organization that the industry inherited its institutional machinery for furthering the broader interests of the trade.
`` Purely from the business man's standpoint and without regard to the lawyer's view '', commented a trade journal, `` the matter of patents in the automobile and accessory trade is developing some phases and results that challenge thought as to how far patents are to become weapons of warfare in business, instead of simple beneficient protection devices for encouraging inventive creation ''.
He became, after a time, commander of a post on the Alabama River, but his operations extended from Mobile throughout the district, and he finally obtained a monopoly of the Indian trade.
The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.
No help came from the crown, and Perier, in desperation, gave a monopoly of the Indian trade in the district to D'Artaguette.
With the loss of the Mobile trade, which ended all profits from Louisiana, the Natchez Indians revolted.
If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.
This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.
It recommends that the United States `` seek instead to detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations ; ;
Armenia's severe trade imbalance has been offset somewhat by international aid, remittances from Armenians working abroad, and foreign direct investment.
Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.

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