- Asia
A pearling and trade entrepot
Kuwait grew wealthy as a maritime port, its dhows trading to India and Africa, its shipyards renowned, and its pearling fleets diving the Gulf oyster beds each summer.
Era: The Founding of Kuwait and the Rise of the Al Sabah
Sources: Persian Gulf States: Country Studies (Kuwait) · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, The reign of Mubarak Al-Sabah and the British Protectorate (1896-1950) · Fanack
- Africa
Zinder, a trans-Saharan hub
Damagaram's capital Zinder grew rich astride the desert route linking Tripoli to Kano, becoming a walled and well-armed trading state and one of the strongest powers in the region.
Era: Hausa states, Damagaram and the shadow of Bornu
Sources: Sultanate of Damagaram · Wikipedia, A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder, ca. 1730–1899 · African History Extra
- Africa
Wadai's commercial expansion
Under Muhammad Sabun, Wadai expanded and prospered by controlling caravan routes from Abéché north to Benghazi and the east-west trade between Darfur and Bornu.
Era: Baguirmi, Wadai and the Saharan trade
Sources: Wadai (sultanate) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wadai Sultanate · Wikipedia
- Oceania
Sandalwood and bêche-de-mer trades
A sandalwood rush at Bua Bay, then the bêche-de-mer trade with China, draw traders, missionaries and muskets that reshape chiefly power.
Era: European Contact & the Rise of Cakobau
Sources: Fiji — History (Melanesian, Colonialism, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica
Economy & Trade in the 1800s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1800s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1800 to 1804. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1800
- Latest
- 1804
- Africa
- 2
- Asia
- 1
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.