Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . COMMERCIAL, TOWNSANJ> TRADE ROUTES of the 13th and 14th Centuries Land Routes {VenetianGenoeseHanse Syracuse +4-+++-H+ 100 200 300 400 500 600 I I i i ? i Scale of Miles Longitude East. Medieval Towns — their Business and Buildings 209 the decline of the Roman roads and the general disorganization Practical dis-produced by the barbarian invasions. In the early Middle Ages of Commercethere was no one to mend the ancient Roman roads. The great ea.
Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . COMMERCIAL, TOWNSANJ> TRADE ROUTES of the 13th and 14th Centuries Land Routes {VenetianGenoeseHanse Syracuse +4-+++-H+ 100 200 300 400 500 600 I I i i ? i Scale of Miles Longitude East. Medieval Towns — their Business and Buildings 209 the decline of the Roman roads and the general disorganization Practical dis-produced by the barbarian invasions. In the early Middle Ages of Commercethere was no one to mend the ancient Roman roads. The great b Middle Ages network of highways from Persia to Britain fell apart when inde-pendent nobles or poor local communities took the place of aworld empire. All trade languished, for there was little demandfor those articles of luxury which the Roman communities in theNorth had been accustomed to obtain from the South, and therewas but little money to buy what we should consider the com-forts of life; even the nobility lived uncomfortably enough intheir dreary and rudely furnished castles. In Italy, however, trade does not seem to have altogether Italian citiesceased. Venice, Genoa, Amalfi, and other towns appear to have ^ae orientdeveloped a considerable Mediterranean commerce even beforethe Crusades (see map above,
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