Timeline for What makes trading cities rich?
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 20:33 | comment | added | user171 | I down voted this answer because I think you're significantly overestimating the amount of business generated by providing services to the traders themselves, particularly in medieval Europe. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 18:02 | comment | added | TechZen | -1 Sorry but this is just plane silly. Athens, Venice, Lisbon, London, New York etc didn't grow rich and powerful out tips from drunken sailors. Read some economic history for [[diety-of-choices]]'s sake. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 12:56 | comment | added | Mark Ripley | You might add to your answer that trade cities have historically grown at locations where cargo needed to change form of transport. This was usually due to crossing water such as a river, lake, or ocean, that required transshipping from a caravan to a ship or vice versa. These cities became transport hubs where many routes met. Cargo and traders would use inns and warehouses to wait for their transport (ship or caravan) to leave the city. Merchants would buy and sell, or split and combine shipments for different destinations. These cities were basically hubs of commerce. | |
| S Jul 29, 2016 at 18:20 | history | suggested | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2016 at 10:45 | vote | accept | Krateng | ||
| Jul 29, 2016 at 8:16 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | It did not have to be the local lord to supply laws. The trade laws were first created by merchants themselves and enforced by the merchant guilds and only gradually incorporated in the official laws by the ruling lords. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 21:08 | comment | added | James | I was planning to answer and now I don't need to. Well written. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Mark | @NexTerren, the "accepted answer" marker can be moved at any time. It's only votes that are locked in until the answer is edited. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | Durakken | @JaredSmith I see I see | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | Ranger | @Durakken If you edit your question, the Asker can move his accepted answer marker. That's the only way I know of. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | Jared Smith | @Durakken the OP can change it, but the community is supposed to upvote the better answer to balance that out. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | Durakken | This is much better articulated version of what I said. I dunno if the checkmark thing can be moved but I would move it to you if I could ^.^ | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | MozerShmozer | Excellent and accurate answer, Thucydides. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:21 | vote | accept | Krateng | ||
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 17:17 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |