Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text

The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Trade' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence Text Source
The city grew wealthy from trade caravans; the Palmyrenes became renowned as merchants who established colonies along the Silk Road and operated throughout the Roman Empire.
[173] It was mentioned next in the Mari tablets as a stop for trade caravans and nomadic tribes, such as the Suteans,[59] and was conquered along with its region by Yahdun-Lim of Mari.
[174] King Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria passed through the area on his way to the Mediterranean at the beginning of the 18th century BC;[175] by then, Palmyra was the easternmost point of the kingdom of Qatna,[176] and it was attacked by the Suteans who paralyzed the traffic along the trade routes.
[139] During the first century Palmyra developed from a minor desert caravan station into a leading trading center,[note 21][194] with Palmyrene merchants establishing colonies in surrounding trade centers.
Palmyrene trade reached its acme during the second century,[216] aided by two factors; the first was a trade route built by Palmyrenes,[18] and protected by garrisons at major locations, including a garrison in Dura-Europos manned in 117 AD.
[217] The second was the Roman conquest of the Nabataean capital Petra in 106,[48] shifting control over southern trade routes of the Arabian Peninsula from the Nabataeans to Palmyra.
The Severan-led Romanxe2x80x93Parthian War, from 194 to 217, influenced regional security and affected the city's trade.
The rise of the Sasanian Empire in Persia considerably damaged Palmyrene trade.
[153] The 4-hectare (9.9-acre) camp was a base for the Legio I Illyricorum,[153] which guarded the trade routes around the city.
[325] The Al Fadl clan protected the trade routes and villages from Bedouin raids,[326] raiding other cities and fighting among themselves.
[369][370] Roman provincial authority set and approved Palmyra's tariff structure,[371] but the provincial interference in local government was kept minimal as the empire sought to ensure the continuous success of Palmyrene trade most beneficial to Rome.
"[387] Palmyra's army protected the city and its economy, helping extend Palmyrene authority beyond the city walls and protecting the countryside's desert trade routes.
Palmyra's economy before and at the beginning of the Roman period was based on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade;[18] the city served as a rest station for the caravans which sporadically crossed the desert.
[194] By the end of the first century BC, the city had a mixed economy based on agriculture, pastoralism, taxation,[434][435] and, most importantly, the caravan trade.
If the Laghman II inscription in Afghanistan is referring to Palmyra, then the city's role in Central Asian overland trade was prominent as early as the third century BC.
The caravan trade depended on patrons and merchants.
[219] The primary income-generating trade good was silk, which was exported from the East to the West.