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Venice as a Mediterranean Trade Hub (1100–1500)

1082 - 1468

15 entries

Trans-Saharan caravan trade and Timbuktu as a mercantile center (13th–16th centuries)

1100 - 1591

13 entries

Spice trade centered on the Banda Islands and the Moluccas (16th–17th centuries)

1494 - 1667

13 entries

Silk Road commerce during the Mongol Empire (13th–14th centuries)

1206 - 1346

14 entries

Shanxi merchants and merchant guild networks in Qing China (18th–19th centuries)

1724 - 1900

12 entries

Medici Bank and Florentine credit systems (1397–1494)

1397 - 1494

16 entries

Malacca Sultanate's Port Commerce (1400–1511)

1403 - 1517

12 entries

Lübeck in the Hanseatic League (13th–15th centuries)

1143 - 1477

14 entries

London Merchant Adventurers and cloth export (1550–1650)

1553 - 1651

15 entries

Istanbul's bazaar guilds and Ottoman urban commerce (15th–18th centuries)

1455 - 1766

12 entries

Indian Ocean trade network and monsoon commerce (1000–1600)

1025 - 1602

15 entries

Hundi credit networks and bill-of-exchange practices in South Asia (17th–19th centuries)

1652 - 1943

12 entries
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