Question

the circumstances that led to the growth of trade in Italy during the middle period ?point wise​

Answer 1

Answer:

While Northern Italy was not richer in resources than many other parts of Europe, the level of development, stimulated by trade, allowed it to prosper. In particular, Florence became one of the wealthiest cities in Northern Italy.

Florence became the center of this financial industry, and the gold florin became the main currency of international trade.

Luxury goods bought in the Levant, such as spices, dyes, and silks, were imported to Italy and then resold throughout Europe.

The Italian trade routes that covered the Mediterranean and beyond were also major conduits of culture and knowledge.

Key Terms

Vitruvius: A Roman author, architect, and civil engineer (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BCE), perhaps best known for his multi-volume work entitled De Architectura.

Hanseatic League: A commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe.

Tacitus: A senator and a historian of the Roman Empire (c. 56–after 117 CE).

Levant: The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

city-state: A political phenomenon of small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula between the 9th and 15th centuries.

Answer 2

Answer:

the circumstances that led to the growth of trade in Italy during the Medieval period :

• The Italian cities had more favourable conditions such as the ports of Italian sub - continent

• The concessions provided by the Italian cities to their merchants.

• Thus the Italian cities of Genoa, Pisa , Venice , Florence etc., emerged as a great commercial centres from 1050 to 1300 CE