Posted by Bibiter on June 17, 2026, 11:50 am, in reply to "Why did northern traders prefer eastern river networks over open Atlantic routes?"
The river networks gave them direct, protected access to the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, which had way more silver bullion to offer than western Europe did at the time.
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