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12 sentences with 'traders'

Example sentences and phrases with the word traders and other words derived from it.


• « Whereas the Mycenaeans had been maritime traders, their descendants were largely confined to local production and trade. »
• « They oversaw the construction of roads and canals useful to traders and derived much of their income from silk textiles. »
• « These Greeks re-established long-distance trade routes, especially with the Phoenicians, the great traders and merchants of the Iron Age. »
• « The Phoenicians were not a particularly warlike people. Instead, they are remembered for being travellers and traders, particularly by sea. »
• « Muslim traders regularly sailed throughout the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and eventually as far as China and the Philippines. »
• « The pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula, most of which is now the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was populated by Arab people. The Arabs were pastoralists and traders. »
• « As transporters, traders and bankers for the crusading expeditions, it was the northern Italians who reaped the greatest financial benefit from the invasions. »
• « The Mongols also made extensive use of spies and intelligence to gather information about the areas they planned to attack, interviewing traders and travellers before they arrived. »
• « At the time, however, the Minoans and Mycenaeans were primarily traders and, in the case of the Mycenaeans, invaders, rather than representing states on a par with the Hittites, Assyrians or Egyptians. »
• « They were often at war with Egypt, which also sought to take advantage of the fall of the Assyrians to seize new lands, but even when the two powers were at war Egyptian traders were still welcome throughout the Neo-Babylonian empire. »
• « All things considered, this was a far-fetched plan; Persia was by far the "superpower" of its time, and since the end of the Persian War, more than a century earlier, numerous Greeks had served the Persian kings as mercenaries and traders. »
• « One effect of Arab shipping is that Islam spread along the sea routes beyond the political control of any of the Arab empires and kingdoms to come; today the largest and most predominantly Muslim country is Indonesia, thanks to Muslim traders who carried their faith along the trade routes. »

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