what did they trade during the medevil times?

Question

im douing a project on medevil times! And its due soon! SSOOO HURRY!

Answer 1

salt and spices, fabrics, animals, foods, raw materials for construction, metals and precious stones. And people! Slavery was a big business in the middle ages.

Answer 2

Anything they made too much of at home for anything they had too little of at home.

Bear in mind that it gets kinda cold in northern europe and kinda warm in southern europe. So folks from the Swiss to the Danes stored up different and often more long-lasting cheeses than Greeks and Italians. Southern cheeses were more goat sourced and northern europeans had more cow sourced cheeses. Then there were the preserved meats, the sausages, which had to be more spicy in the south to keep from spoiling, something the northern folks didn't have much of (hint "spice trade" with the East).

There were woods and weapons. Some places had an emphasis at various times for skill with certain woods (and skills in fashioning them) for things like bows to spears and pikes to seige engines. Then there were the timbers for boats and ship masts--one of the earliest records of exports from Vineland (somewhere on North America) by the Vikings were the exceptionally long tree timbers used to make ship masts. Some places had iron and special skill in metal working. Some southern metals were found to be too brittle in the cold of the north. Some northern metals were fashioned too crudely (or heavy, as some of the Norse and German swords could be--the Norse could fight with one hand while others had to use two-hands, unaccustomed to the size and weight, though they usually used shorter and often broader swords). Then there were fabrics. Southern linens and cottens were great in summer, northern woolens were usually woven for warmth in winter. There were wines, fruits, and even building stone that was traded in those days. Often, however, there was a careful trade of trade craft, skilled craftsmen from one area going to another where the craft was rare or poorly performed.

Answer 3

They traded swallows. Particularly African swallows that would be capable of carrying a coconut for the people that couldn't afford horses. You see they would run into problems though because African Swallows are non-migratory so whilst they can carry a coconut, they do not travel to tropical zones. Now a European swallow does migrate to tropical climates, but cannot carry a coconut. Hence the dillemma so instead they traded witch costumes and dressed people up as witches and had fun burning them.

Answer 4

honey, sugar, spices, people, livestock. There is a book by Roxanna Anderson named My life in med evil times that u need to get and read. It is not very big so it won't take u long. She has a chapter in there about what they would trade and what things were worth. good luck on ur project.

Answer 5

Cloth, hides, food, jewels, wood, iron,

Depends on what location in medieval times.

Answer 6

human bodies! kidding. pigs, cows, oil, silk, spices from the east... go to wikipedia, and type medieval ages economy

Answer 7

animals, household items (pots, pans, candles, bowls, etc), labor, food, everything that could be wanted was tradable.

Answer 8

you check wikipedia? They have lots of info on everything you can think of.

Answer 9

chickens and sexual favors.