TRADE & EXPLORATION (jan 18, 1400 – jan 18, 1600)

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- Trade & Prosperity
- - Trade revived in 11th Century
- -Florence became commercial hub
- - Leisure and Luxury
- - Commissioned Works of Art
- - The plague shocked trade due to the fact that there was a fear of spreading plague.

- Europe had been trading for millennia
- - The Roman Empire and Partia traded with Han China via the silk roads
- - However, when the silk roads collapsed, trade came to a halt.

- Trade was revived
- - Trade recuperated slowly from 600’s onward
- - Trade peaked during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300)

- - Marco Polo traveled to Mongol China in 1270 to look for trade opportunities