Medieval Europe
Trading centers inItaly and Flanders
* By 1100, Flanders and Italy were exchanging goods.
* Northern Europe exchanged anything from furs to sugar and spices .
* In the early Middle Ages, people traded goods for goods.
* As the trading increased,, demand for gold and silver coins rose.
*Because people stared using money, merchants set up trading companies and banks to manage the money and the sold goods.