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on the almost 1,700-foot-long bridge started in 1357, and upon its completion in the early 15th century it immediately became an important trade route between eastern and western Europe. It is also famous for the three large bridge towers, especially the one on the Old Town side of the

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celebrated its 785th anniversary in 2004. Turku was never founded; it seems it was always there. It developed naturally at the crossing of the northern trade routes at the mouth of the Aura River. The current population of approximately 170,000 is hardworking, industrious, and friendly. With a rail pass, you can

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the conspiracy?” “He was the ship that found Big Rock Candy Mountain in the first place,” she admitted, reluctantly. “They were…” “Smuggling?” “… off the normal trade routes.” “Did he know that you planned to sacrifice him and his crew?” “What happened to Afar was an accident. He and his crew were supposed

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ship. The town, as suggested by its imaginary name, is still living in an aura of opulence and splendour, a port situated on the great trade-routes, a place where one meets people from distant countries, where one dreams of wealth, and catches a glimpse of it, even handles it, but above

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painted plaster laid over a rock core. Beyond their religious purpose, they served too as giant landmarks for travellers on one of Asia’s great trade routes.5 With the vast statues, a monastery had been constructed, a mixture of wooden scaffolding built against the cliff face and caves. The Buddhist monks

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there.’ Rashid, Descent into Chaos, p. 28. 11. Ibid., pp. 50–51. 12. Both Bhutto and her interior minister, Naseerullah Babar, hoped too to open trade routes from Pakistan to central Asia, another constant theme of Pakistani diplomacy and strategic thinking over previous decades and a further reason for the continual insistence

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water, and a free port for ever!” Hong Kong then grew into a global city because of the active trade routes through, and within, Southeast Asia going back hundreds of years. Those trade routes are often forgotten as the popular imagination fixates on a merely twentieth-century version of globalization, ignoring all those that

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before. Exchange of peoples, goods, ideas, and technologies was well established long before the Europeans joined in. Hong Kong joined this strong chain linking ancient trading routes and changing commodities by becoming home to the right kind of people—individuals who knew the trades, the shipping, the commodities and markets, and how

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Batavia and Galle, and finally the British at Penang and Singapore. Only then did Hong Kong come into its own, growing out of those ancient trade routes that spanned the Mediterranean, through or around Africa into the Indian Ocean, and on to the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, perhaps stopping off at

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protector, 55, 56, 57 Endicott, Sarah Ann Russell, 57, 59 ethnicity, use of term, 8 see also race Eu Tong Sen, 119 eugenics, 155 Eurasia, trade routes in, 10 Eurasian Face (Zimmern), 238 Eurasians, 59, 73, 138, 240 as adept at straddling cultures, 102, 234, 242 as compradors, 169 definition of, 6

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Suppression of the Opium Trade, 116 “Some Observations on Race Mixture in Hong Kong” (Alabaster), 142–43 South China Morning Post, 186 Southeast Asia: early trade routes in, 15–17 women’s roles in, 22 Souza, Luis, 199 Spanish Empire, 16 Special Operations Executive, 193 St. Andrew’s Church, 117 St. Andrew

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the Peace of Paris. A chief beneficiary of the peace was Britain’s fast-expanding empire in the Americas and India. This opened up new trading routes and cultural stimuli. One such was indicated in 1788 by George Dance’s refashioned entrance for the medieval Guildhall in the City of London. Its

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the nearly invisible film billow ever so slightly, rippling my field of vision. “A slime mold?” “Sure,” he said. “The Synarche use them to map trade routes for effective resource delivery. It looks like that. Or like . . . cobwebs.” If I was going to retreat from panic into Singer Land, I was going

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place. They would collect dust and old insect parts and become almost like—draperies. Uneven. Stretched from point to point. Tattered. Looked kind of like trade routes, actually.” I shuddered. Connla grew up on a planet. I was space-raised, and found the idea of anything as unpredictable, violent, and generally murderous

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Katanga: Cloves were a commodity buffeted by the winds of international commerce. The king, who had an almost preternatural understanding of such forces, opened new trade routes with the west coast of Africa. At first, Msiri welcomed European visitors to Bunkeya, and they were impressed by the Yeke capital: Frederick Stanley Arnot

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Katanga’s copper well before Belgium took control of Congo. I imagined ancient people lugging them across the savanna, moving them with little fuss along trade routes that crossed Africa. When Europeans later traversed these well-trod routes, they would be lauded by their own countrymen as intrepid explorers. But the resources

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in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy, he offered a “theory of the size and shape of nations,” crunching measurements of the length of medieval trade routes into formulae.23 But it was in 1978 that he made his most enduring contribution to the literature of the New Middle Ages. While his

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Newsstream.   71.  Oliver Wainwright, “Inside the London Megaport You Didn’t Know Existed,” Guardian, September 15, 2015, ProQuest.   72.  “Somali Pirates Risk Choking Key World Trade Route,” Reuters, April 15, 2009, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-piracy-shipping-factbox-idUSTRE53E2JR20090415.   73.  David S. Fick, Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity (Johannesburg

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