- Trading networks
- Case Study I: Venetian Trading Network
- Venice
- Competes with many other Italian city-states
- Establishes bank branches in European cities
- Establishes merchant colonies in
- Byzantine Empire
- Black Sea
- Middle East
- Sends the Polos to China!
- Case Study II: Hanseatic League
- Trade tax: If from local, no trade tax. If going to another place to sell, there will be trade tax to help protect local companies.
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