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  • Trade Routes c. 1200

    Trade Routes c. 1200

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    Trade Routes c. 1200

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    In c. 1200, major trade routes ran from Europe across Asia, and to northern Africa – including Tunis, Tripoli and the Nile Delta – into sub-Saharan East and West Africa. The Black and Caspian Seas were important trade centres, acting as hubs for trading routes to and from Africa, Asia... More
  • Trade Routes, 700–1500

    Trade Routes, 700–1500

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    Trade Routes, 700–1500

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    Following its foundation in the 7th century, Islam acted as a cohesive force between areas where it was established as the main religion. It facilitated trade between the lands of Christianity in west and the empires of the Far East via a number of important land and maritime trade routes.... More
  • US Railroads 1840

    US Railroads 1840

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    US Railroads 1840

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    From the opening of the first few railroads in the east coast states at the beginning of the 1830s, America’s rail network began its rapid expansion westwards as technology and investment in railroad companies took off. At first the railroads were fiercely opposed by canal corporations, which conducted the bulk... More
  • World Empires and Trade 1500–1600

    World Empires and Trade 1500–1600

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    World Empires and Trade 1500–1600

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    Afonso de Albuquerque, the ‘Caesar of the East’, established the lynchpins of Portuguese commerce in the Indian Ocean, crucially Malacca (1511) at the choke-point of the China trade, and Goa, which gave access to the wealthy Indian sub-continent. As a consequence, the Venetian control of the overland trade, via the... More