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Arabic merchants from the middle east
100 years
It began when Elizabeth I granted a company of 218 merchants a monopoly of trade to the east of the Cape of Good Hope in 1600.
The Mayan Merchants travel as far east as right between two merchants.
pre-colonial East African trade is characterized by Western colonial through controlled economic, political and by Centre all products so called world markets.
Arabic merchants from the Middle East
Arabic merchants from the middle east
because they wanted to stay the out of thier business
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100 years
the east!
I think the trade route you are looking for is call the "silk road".
Genoa and Venice
the Portuguese
For merchants from the EAST, it was the Gateway to the European buyers, and for merchants from the West, it was the gateway Asian markets. Situated where it is, straddling the Hellespont, on both continents, with easy land and sea access from all sides, it became the hub of trade.
The Spaniards and Portuguese came to the East in search of new trade routes to Asia. They sought to bypass the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the lucrative overland trade with Asia. The Portuguese, led by Vasco da Gama, successfully sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and established trade networks in the Indian Ocean. The Spanish later followed suit, with Ferdinand Magellan leading the first circumnavigation of the globe.
It began when Elizabeth I granted a company of 218 merchants a monopoly of trade to the east of the Cape of Good Hope in 1600.