Byzantine-Jewish trade in the Commercial Revolution
Joshua Holo
The dissection of the Byzantine Jewish economy and examination its dynamics do not help only to reconceptualize Byzantine-Jewish segregation integration. This particular lens economic history also suggests another, more specific historical consequence, at a juncture in which Jews' experience extends beyond limits ethnic enters into larger realm Commercial Revolution. Beginning roughly tenth century increasingly eleventh, Western Europe met challenge demographic growth with ever-evolving improving agricultural methods. increased population demanded wider markets, enterprising city-states on Italian coasts rose occasion. leader these city-states, Venice, developed trade Levant exploited series colonies outposts as transfer points for goods from Muslim worlds. As forces evolved, they fundamentally realigned direction, content volume across Mediterranean, thereby justified designation revolution mentalities activities, even though process admittedly took place an evolutionary pace than revolutionary one.
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