13 sentences with 'trade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word trade and other words derived from it.
• « In essence, the obsidian trade at Çatal Höyük proves that specialised manufacture (in this case, of obsidian tools) and trade networks have existed since the dawn of civilisation itself. »
• « It was an important centre of long-distance trade, with its trade networks extending throughout the Middle East and as far as the Indus River valley of India, with traders relying on donkey caravans and the use of wheeled chariots. »
• « They claimed all of Uruk's economic production and trade network because the city's patron god "owned" the city, justifying the priesthood's control. »
• « Beginning in earnest with the Middle Kingdom, trade caravans linked Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Egypt (and, later, Greece as well). »
• « The Bronze Age was a period when long-distance trade networks and diplomatic exchanges between states became permanent aspects of political, economic and cultural life in the Eastern Mediterranean region. »
• « These regions were close enough to each other (for example, it is approximately 800 miles from Greece to Mesopotamia, the furthest distance between any of the regions) for long-distance trade to be possible. »
• « Both states also encouraged trade, and goods were exchanged throughout the Middle East region. »
• « Likewise, Solomon taxed both the trade that passed through the Hebrew kingdom and his own subjects. »
• « As noted above, the kingdom itself was quite wealthy, thanks to its good position on the trade routes and the existence of gold mines, but Solomon's continual fiscal and labour demands were such that in time resentment developed among the Hebrews. »
• « During the Bronze Age, the Minoans and Mycenaeans were two of the civilisations that formed part of the international trade and diplomatic network of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. »
• « Agriculture reverted to subsistence levels, and trade with neighbouring areas all but disappeared. »
• « There was also a thriving slave trade among all the great civilisations of the ancient world; African slaves were captured and sold in Egypt, Greek slaves to Persia (despite its nominal ban on slavery, it is clear that at least some slavery existed in Persia), nomadic people from the steppes in the Black Sea ports, and so on. »