The Commercial Revolution

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The roots of the modern economy, based on markets, money, and exchange, lie deep in the Middle Ages. The Commercial Revolution remade the European economy, paving the way for the explosive growth that followed centuries later.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:16.9	The Mule's hooves clop on the worn flagstones of the road.
0:21.6	The pack animals let out the occasional bray of protest as they wind their way down the
0:26.2	pack.
0:27.2	They're a bit too narrow for comfort.
0:29.2	Their handlers carefully watching their footing and thanking God to be out of the dangerous
0:33.7	mountain passes.
0:35.9	The owls rise up in the distance behind them.
0:38.7	The peaks covered with snow and wreath and spring clouds.
0:42.8	The travelers don't look back.
0:45.9	It's early April of the year 1226.
0:49.2	The travelers converse in their Genoese dialect.
0:51.9	The experienced merchants telling the newcomers what they can expect as they come down into
0:56.3	the Swiss lands and then head for the rich fares of champagne beyond that.
1:01.1	One of them extolls the virtues of a particular bordello in Toa, another astue recipe at a
1:06.2	hostile and provient.
1:08.1	Their protesting miserable mules are loaded down with bales of silk cloth and aromatic
1:12.8	spices.
1:14.5	If the merchants try hard, breathing through noses clogged by allergies and colds caught
1:19.6	on their trip through the mountains, they can smell the pepper, cloves, and cinnamon
1:24.1	through their careful rapids.
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