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With the fall of Rome, it will be the Byzantines

(Romans also), whom will take control of the Med-

iterranean commerce, at least for a while, until

Arabs, Venetians, Genoese and Catalan take away

the privilege. Up north, meanwhile, the Vikings

will give a new impetus to maritime develop-

ment. Contrary to what is often thought of them,

these intrepid sailors were not only fierce raiders

of defenseless towns, but they actually preferred

trading over looting, carrying their goods on

board the Knorr, their merchant vessels. During

the High Middle Age they will undoubtedly be the

best sailors in the world, allowing them to be the

first Europeans to arrive, this time in document-

ed form, to America.

When the Vikings disappeared, their place in

commerce in northern Europe was taken by the

cities of the Hanseatic League, led by Lübeck, Ger-

many, whose economic power, derived from the

maritime trade, became significant during the late

Middle Age.

With the end of the Middle Age and the fall of

Constantinople to the Ottomans, Europeans will be

forced to leave their borders, to recover the spice

trade from China through the so-called Silk Road.

These new explorations would remain in the hands

of Portuguese and Spanish from the mid-fifteenth

to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The invention of

the Caravel, a type of ship capable of open-ocean

sailing, allowed Columbus to successfully carry

out the journey that led Europeans to establish a

permanent contact with the American world and

allowed the two Iberian countries to become the

first ones with an overseas empire.

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