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2. Mercantilism - Wikipedia

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   Seaport at sunset, a painting by Claude Lorrain, completed in 1639 at the height of mercantilism. Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.

3. Economics of English towns and trade in the Middle Ages

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   A medieval merchant's trading house in Southampton, restored to its mid-14th-century appearance. There were some reversals. The attempts of English merchants to break through the Hanseatic league directly into the Baltic markets failed in the domestic political chaos of the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and 1470s. [117]

4. Hanseatic League - Wikipedia

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   The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...

5. Free trade - Wikipedia

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   Free trade is a trade ... all of China to British merchants. In Britain, free trade became a central ... the best-argued tract on free trade to this day". ...

6. Category:Trade simulation games - Wikipedia

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   Games of this type emphasize the life of a trader or merchant involving the transportation of goods or commodities for profit, [1] often as a free-lance agent, smuggler or privateer. References [ edit ]

7. Indian maritime history - Wikipedia

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   Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus Valley initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia. [1] India's long coastline, which occurred due to the protrusion of India's Deccan Plateau, helped it to make new trade relations with the Europeans, especially the Greeks, and the length of its coastline on the Indian Ocean is partly a reason ...