Effects On Commerce
The crusaders created an almost never ending demand for transportation of men and supplies, urgeing ship-building, and extended the market for eastern merchants in Europe. The products of spices,Mosul,Cairo,Damascus, Alexandria , and other goods were carried across the Mediterranean Sea
to the Italian seaports. The greatness of the Orient, with its silks, tapestries, precious stones, perfumes, spices, pearls, and ivory, was so amazing and beautiful that a creative and animated crusader called it "The Vestibule of Paradise."
to the Italian seaports. The greatness of the Orient, with its silks, tapestries, precious stones, perfumes, spices, pearls, and ivory, was so amazing and beautiful that a creative and animated crusader called it "The Vestibule of Paradise."