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Virtual Villagers is a series of village simulator video games created and developed by Last Day of Work, an independent video game developer and publisher.Each game contains puzzles the player must complete to uncover the ethnic and cultural backgrounds surrounding fictional Polynesian island called Isola (EE-zoh-la).
The pearls from this city were prized for its hardness unlike those found in the Bay of Bengal, which are softer and, thus, less durable. [3] However, the discovery of oil and the later establishment of the oil industry polluted the Persian Gulf, led to the decline of pearl trade in Basra. Henceforth, pearl merchants gravitated towards Hyderabad.
Wildlife trade is a serious conservation problem, has a negative effect on the viability of many wildlife populations and is one of the major threats to the survival of vertebrate species. [3] The illegal wildlife trade has been linked to the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases in humans, including emergent viruses .
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage .
Paddy was the most important crop; it was the staple cereal and served as a medium of exchange for inland trade. Pepper, millets, grams and sugarcane were other commonly grown crops. Madurai and Urayur were important centers for the textile industry; Korkai was the center of the pearl trade. Industrial activity flourished.
Pearl Hart (born Pearl Taylor; 1871 – December 30, 1955) was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. Many details of Hart's life are uncertain, with available reports being varied and often ...