History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . of the towns and their increasing prosperity was a great develop-ment of trade throughout western Europe. Commerce had prettymuch disappeared with the decline of the Roman roads and thegeneral disorganization produced by the barbarian invasions. Inthe early Middle Ages there was no one to mend the ancientRoman thoroughfares. The great network of highways from Persiato Britain fell apart when independent nobles or poor local com-munities took the place of a world empire. All trade languished,for there was littl
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . of the towns and their increasing prosperity was a great develop-ment of trade throughout western Europe. Commerce had prettymuch disappeared with the decline of the Roman roads and thegeneral disorganization produced by the barbarian invasions. Inthe early Middle Ages there was no one to mend the ancientRoman thoroughfares. The great network of highways from Persiato Britain fell apart when independent nobles or poor local com-munities took the place of a world empire. All trade languished,for there was little demand for those articles of luxury which theRoman communities in the North had been accustomed to obtainfrom the South, and there was but little money to buy what weshould consider the comforts of life; even the nobility lived un-comfortably enough in their dreary and rudely furnished castles. 644. Italian Cities trade with the Orient. In Italy, however,trade does not seem to have altogether ceased. Veriice, Genoa,Amalfi, and other towns appear to have developed a considerable. Longitude .Eae
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