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Arabic merchants from the Middle East
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Merchants were drawn to the middle colonies because there was a lot of trade going on there. The farming and natural resources played a big part in why the economy was successful.
Arabic merchants from the middle east
For the New England merchants, the middle passage was by far the most lucrative of the three legs of the triangular trade.
African merchants played a role in facilitating the Atlantic slave trade by capturing and selling individuals from rival ethnic groups to European slave traders in exchange for goods like firearms and textiles. This trade was often driven by intertribal conflict and the desire to gain power and resources.
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Italian murchants made huge profits by trading Asian goods. Italians used military strength to control the trade on the mediterranean and didn't allow other Europeans to take part in it. Merchants and other Europeans envied the profits made by Italian merchants, and found new routs to Asia. Sources: Creating America book and My Great Brain ;)
It was the middle leg of the triangular trade route that Europeans followed.
There is a list of merchants active in Calais in the index of T.H. Lloyd, The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages, Cambridge uni Press, 1977. See under "Merchants" in Index.
Under free enterprise, merchants were able to conduct unrestricted international trade. Under mercantilism, international trade was restricted.