Crises and Consolidations - Discontents in Town and Countryside - Economic Decline
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What ended after 1340? What came instead?
- After 1340, with the disintegration of the Mongol Empire, easy trade relations between Europe and the Far East ended.
- Within Europe, rulers' war machines were fueled by new taxes and loans - some of them forced.
What consequences did war have economically?
What happened in the Baltic region as a result of population decline?
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Where did the center of economic growth shift to?
Where was a new slave trade emerging?
- Dominated by Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate, slave traders profited from people captured in wars or raids or (in the case of children) sold by parents. They were transported across the Black Sea for purchase by wealthy elites.
- The Mamluks groomed boys for army duty and service at court. The Venetians and Genoese exploited women as convenient sexual partners. Everywhere enslaved women and men did household labor and acted as servants.
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