Merchants banded together to create guilds, and the guilds controlled prices and standards of trade.
In many places, the merchants and guilds of towns and cities banded together to form the medieval communes, which were cities with republican governments or governments that were partly republican. These cities banded together to form, for example, the Hanseatic League. The goal was to produce greater protection of trade and manufacturing, and this produced a stable environment in which the merchants were able to prosper.
Merchants took advantage of improved trade routes, such as the Silk Road, to import expensive goods.
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Because the towns grew larger and more money was made.
Merchants became the most wealthy and powerful members of town because they controlled import and export of goods. They also had control over prices and could make large profits.
they had goods that people needed and made profits
Factors that helped some West African societies to become wealthy include the presence of oil and gas reserves.
Mexicans decided to build a trade company and sell it for cash crops in return. They kept this process going until they were very wealthy and they still do this process today.
they worked hard and followed the rules and were strong leaders
Genoa became a wealthy because it was one of the Italian Sea republics (Venice, Genoa and Pisa). These republics built fleets and traded with the Byzantines and the Arabs in the eastern Mediterranean. Their trading links also reached India and China. They imported luxury goods from the orient (spices, incenses, perfumes, silk and other textiles which were expensive at the time, such as cotton and linen) and exported them to the rest of Europe.
The Europeans perspective on exploration was the find riches, discover new passages to Asia for spices and silk and to conquer land to become most powerful using imperialism.
Because the towns grew larger and more money was made.
Because the towns grew larger and more money was made.
They traded .
Gold and salt!!
Yes. That is true.
Yes. That is true.
To become wealthy and powerful, whatever it takes...
Yes, that was the main purpose of exploring.
after overthrowing the hyksos
It imposed taxes on merchants who used gold trade routes that passed through Ghana.
Cuz ya momzzz is ugly
It was a powerful city state of merchants and bankers with sea access.