I believe the answer is: It was located on peninsula between Europe and Asia and lied on the cross of trade routes
This location gave constantinople a strategic location to control the trades between European traders and Asian traders. They could obtain a lot of profit by either taxing the trades that pass through their territory, or monopolizing a certain type of product themselves.
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