trade routes
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MIDDLE AGES / DARK AGES / MEDIEVAL TIMES
ANCIENT TIMES 5000 B.C. -- 476 A.D.
MIDDLE AGES 476 -- 1492
MODERN TIMES 1492 -- present
THE VIKINGS RAVAGED EUROPE
THE VIKINGS SAILED ALL THE WAY TO NORTH AMERICA, 1001(?)
BUT THEY GET NO CREDIT / HOLIDAY
AMERICA REMAINED UNKNOWN
OUR STORY RETURNS TO MEDIEVAL EUROPE
A TIME OF KNIGHTS, LORDS, & KINGS
AND A TIME OF STRICT CATHOLICISM
EUROPEANS WANTED GOODIES FROM THE EAST
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BUT TRADE ROUTES TO ASIA WERE LONG!!!
THE CAMEL! eeewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!
BUT EUROPE WAS WILLING TO PAY
1) GEMS & 2) FURNISHINGS PRECIOUS & WARES METALS
3) AND SPICES!!!
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