Latest posts tagged with #AtlanticTrade on Bluesky
#Wow. #Assyrian most likely became #asian, #Asia because the #MiddleEast, #Orient AKA west #Asia, represented #theOrient to the #AtlanticTrade. And, also, the #gatekeepers & #guardians of #TheGateways to #Rome. And all roads led to Rome? You know, all these ole sayings are about #historical #facts.
New on First View!
Esther Sahle uses evidence from eighteenth-century Hamburg to show that free trade policies emerged in response to Atlantic trade expansion.
#freetrade #Atlantictrade #colonialism #CentralEurope #freeports
Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Duke Town, emerged as a major Efik trading center and hub for Atlantic commerce, imports and exports as well sl*** trade, before transitioning in the nineteenth century toward palm oil trade, missionary influence, and colonial entanglements
#DukeTown
#EfikHistory
#AtlanticTrade
#CrossRiver
Looking down into a circular, glass, porthole in the Roman theatre visitor centre. My feet and Ronny's feet are visible and our reflections are in the glass. Beyond the reflection you can see a piece of one of the columns that used to support the upper part of the theatre
Cadiz old cathedral looks like a cross between a castle and a rustic farmhouse. The entrance is a large red door surrounded by brick. The section of the building facing the sea has no windows but has a small turret. Why? The English burnt down the original building during one of many attacks on the city. So the first cathedral was rebuilt to look drab so it was less likely to be attacked in the future!
An 18th century house owned by a merchant. A grand door surrounded by columns support a first floor balcony of the door. The ground floor was used for storage of goods, the merchant's family lived on the first floor, the servants on the second and the towers on top were used to keep a lookout, and communicate with, incoming ships bringing goods into Cadiz Most merchant houses in Cadiz have been converted into hotels but developers are required to preserve their architectural features
A roadside lamp shaped like a trident, with the sea in background and the coastline road in the fore
Cadiz continued #cadiz #merchant #atlantictrade #cathedral #trident #romantheatre
👇🇨🇦🇺🇸"Eastern Canadian premiers, U.S. governors to meet in Boston Monday" #AtlanticTrade #TrumpTariffs #PremiersAndGovernorsMeeting
LNG Carrier Rates Plummet to Record Lows in the Atlantic #LNGCarrierRates, #MaritimeEconomy, #AtlanticTrade
Researching #AtlanticTrade often found references to #manillas as #currency. Amazed they were still in circulation in 1948!
