Introduction: The Conversion of the Mediterraneaninto a World Centre, Its Crises and the Formation of the Late Mediaeval Commercial Empires

• Autores: Jordi Catalán Vidal
• Localización: Crises and transformation in the Mediterranean world: lessons from Catalonia / Jordi Catalán Vidal (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-24504-6, págs. 1-62
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since prehistory, men and innovations had flowed from East to West for centuries along the Mediterranean and had transformed its economies and societies. Later commercial city-states emerged on the shores of the Inner Sea and reinforced this process favoured by the low sea transport costs. Several of them became maritime empires or thalassocracies.