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What effect did the Crusades have on trade?
Trade throughout the Mediterranean was destroyed.
Trading cities became more important.
Italian merchants saw their fortunes ruined.
Europeans began to sell their own spices.
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Trading cities became more important.
The Crusades reopened and expanded trade routes between Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean/Asia, increasing demand for Eastern goods (spices, silk, sugar, etc.). That boosted the wealth and power of Mediterranean trading cities (especially Italian city-states like Venice, Genoa and Pisa) and the merchant class.
The Crusades reopened and expanded trade routes between Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean/Asia, increasing demand for Eastern goods (spices, silk, sugar, etc.). That boosted the wealth and power of Mediterranean trading cities (especially Italian city-states like Venice, Genoa and Pisa) and the merchant class.
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