A trading post , trading station , or trading house , also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.
11-444: An entrepôt ( English: / ˈ ɒ n t r ə p oʊ / ON -trə-poh ; French: [ɑ̃tʁəpo] ) or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported , stored, or traded, usually to be exported again. Such cities often sprang up and such ports and trading posts often developed into commercial cities due to the growth and expansion of long-distance trade. These places played
22-452: A critical role in trade during the days of wind-powered shipping . In modern times customs areas have largely made entrepôts obsolete, but the term is still used to refer to duty-free ports with a high volume of re-export trade. Entrepôt also means 'warehouse' in modern French, and is derived from the Latin roots inter 'between' + positum 'position', literally 'that which
33-598: A large part in managing these goods, where they were going, and when. Some goods exchanged at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system were precious stones, fabrics , ivory , and wine . There is also evidence that they traded cattle at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula. A trading house was typically strategically stocked with goods that
44-486: A trading post to exchange local products for goods they wished to acquire. A trading post can be either a single building or an entire town. Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near the ocean, a river, or another natural resource . Major towns in the Hanseatic League were known as kontors , a form of trading posts. Charax Spasinu
55-578: A trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was able to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie. Noochuloghoyet Trading Post was an American trading post established in the last 19th century, located in central Alaska adjacent to
66-468: Is placed between'. Entrepôts had an important role in the early modern period , when mercantile shipping flourished between Europe and its colonial empires in the Americas and Asia . For example, the spice trade to Europe, which necessitated long trade routes, featured a much higher market price than the original buying price. Traders often did not want to travel the whole route, and thus used
77-688: The Native Americans would trade furs for; some of these goods included clothing, blankets, and corn. Eric Jay Dolin's Fur, Fortune, and Empire provides some historical context on events and the origins of trading posts in North America. One of the first examples given is that of the Kennebec Trading House, established in 1628 by the Plymouth colonists. The next event from Dolin's book features early conflicts between
88-733: The French and Plymouth colonists. This occurs in 1631 when the French go to the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. With the masters and most of the crew gone to get supplies, this left only a few servants to attend to the French. When the Frenchmen learned that this was the case, they decided to feign interest in a few of the guns available at the trading post, which they turned back onto the servants. They ordered for all things valuable, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts. A good portion of Fur, Fortune, and Empire focuses on
99-433: The entrepôts on the way to sell their goods. This could conceivably lead to more attractive profits for those who were suited to traveling the entire route. The 17th-century Amsterdam Entrepôt is an early modern example. Trading post Typically the location of the trading post allows people from one geographic area to trade in goods produced in another area. In some examples, local inhabitants can use
110-718: The journey of John Jacob Astor, who founded the American Fur Company (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed many Americans and, up to this point, only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, they would need an inside contact to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger,
121-559: Was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires. Manhattan and Singapore were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman Peter Minuit and Englishman Stamford Raffles respectively, and later developed into major settlements. The Roman Empire could control such a large amount of land because of their efficient systems for spreading information, goods, and other supplies across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to fueling outposts in distant territories, like northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played
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