 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 514 sider
...BOKHARA AND CENTRAL ASIA. Progress THE commercial intercourse which has subsisted of the com- . be between Europe and the nations of Central Asia and...English sent merchants and ambassadors to seek for other outlets of commerce, among the nations on the Caspian and eastward of that sea. These expeditions were... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 502 sider
...subsisted of the com- . » « i « merce be- between Europe and the nations of Central Asia indEu-5" and India is of high antiquity: it flourished rope'...English sent merchants and ambassadors to seek for other outlets of commerce, among the nations on the Caspian and eastward of that sea. These expeditions were... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 sider
...the time when the improvements in nautical science, and the bolder spirit of modern navigation opened a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope. In the mean time, Alexandria, admirably situated for the purposes of commerce, became one of the most important... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1856 - 556 sider
...centre of trade that would inevitably follow. Venice and Genoa lost their commercial superiority by the opening of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the opening of a ship canal across either Isthmus would have a similar, though not so speedy... | |
 | Francesco Urgos - 1877 - 344 sider
...but when conquered by the caliphs, and subjected to the Saracen yoke, it declined, till the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497, gave the last blow to its trade. But Mehemet Ali, being anxious to acquire a navy, perceived... | |
 | William Chambers - 1878 - 334 sider
...thence by sea to Venice, and so onward by land to the Netherlands and north of Europe. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope in 1486 put an end to this tedious and costly traffic. Ships now sailed direct for India, and in effect... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1885 - 606 sider
...centre of trade that would inevitably follow. Venice and Genoa lost their commercial superiority by the opening of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the opening of a ship canal across either isthmus would have a similar, though not so speedy... | |
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great Novogorod." The opening of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in the fifteenth century, effected an eventful change in the channels of ancient commerce ; but the fruits of that discovery continued for a long time in the hands of the Portuguese.... 