The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important centre of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.
Well, I am pretty sure that the correct answers will be C and D. This is because when people had traveled with Marco Polo they had seen all of the opportunity that they were missing when they weren't trading what they had traded with the Orient when they first started. The Crusades influenced a lot of people to start trading with others I personally think that they forced some people to do it but we don't know that for sure.
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