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| c. 825 |
| | | Viking tribes known as the Rus are established as traders in the region of Novgorod | |
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| c. 910 |
| | | Paper money is developed in China, becoming later one of the aspects of Chinese life which most impresses Marco Polo | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The Jews, barred from any work which Christians want to do, find profitable employment as money-lenders | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The salt mines of the Sahara provide a staple commodity in the African caravan trade | |
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| 1082 |
| | | Venice acquires valuable trading privileges from Constantinople, her merchants being excused all dues and customs in the Byzantine empire | |
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| 1087 |
| | | The Domesday Book provides the Normans with an inventory of England | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The Medici move into Florence from their country home in the Mugello valley | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | German merchants begin trading along the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, a region to which they give the name Livonia | |
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| 1159 |
| | | Henry the Lion builds a new town at Lübeck, well placed to develop as the centre of the Hanseatic League | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | | Europe grows in prosperity during the thirteenth century, with a widespread increase in trade and production | |
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