HISTORY 2HH3 Lecture 2: Trade Part II
26 Sep 2020
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Innovations that helped foster increasing trade and commercial engagement: evolution of port cities and development of trading networks, regulating mechanisms of trade (barriers to and mechanisms to increase trade) Circular plate of metal suspended on a boat. Essential for navigating shorelines where many dangers might lay. Developed by jewish brothers abraham and jehuda cresques: global mapmaking. Catalan atlas of 1375: expensive, labour-intensive product, model for developing new maps that brought the latest knowledge and technology, create a bigger understanding of mediterranean and trading spaces. Venice small colonies of greek orthodox, armenian, christian, jewish and. Muslim traders in its own city: e. g. Marseilles colonies of muslim and sephardic jews as well as armenian. Christians: by late 16th c. , two new european powers established mercantile colonies in the levant, english and the dutch. 3: began forming merchant colonies and formal trading relations with ottomans, consul, an official resident responsible for politically representing colonies locally, had special privileges, e. g.
