https://padlet.com/mabelng17/Bookmarks en-us 2016-06-09 07:43:23 UTC 2016-06-20 16:03:57 UTC hello@padlet.com mabelng17 https://padlet.com/mabelng17/Bookmarks/wish/114890266 <TRADE DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPANSIONS>
- attitude towards trade 
skilled diplomats , enterprising with adventurous spirit and attracting foreign trade.
- innovations in maritime technology
creative in areas of navigation and weaponry use on ships, paved the way for oceanic discoveries, advanced technology made travelling in winter possible, always building new and more powerful ships for military and trading.
-efficiency in managing voyages
allowed Venice to expand its trade into many regions, grouped traders and ordered them to travel in convoys (large quantities)
-trade monopoly-Central and Southern Europe relied on Venetians for goods from East ( spices,sugar,diamonds )Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.

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