Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... ers traveling to Cathay, had it not been for Genghis Khan. Having mentioned the name of Genghis, Khan of the World, it may be said at once that the Greeks, led by Palaeologus, got back Constantinople in 1261. Michael, first of the House of Palaeologus, trying every method, at last drew in Genoa, which flouting the Pope, engaged to expel the Latins if given all the privileges of Venice at Constantinople. Here then was certain ground for a hundred years' war for trade, between Venice, the ousted, and Genoa, the ouster. BRUGES OF THE WEST Constantinople had been much maimed by the Latins. They did not understand the organization and police necessary for such a city. The Latins would have fared better there if their own part of the world had not been so active at the time. Brisk as commerce was then in the West, there was no considerable emigration from the West following the Latin conquest. That conquest was merely an incident in the decline of the Greeks. The next year after the Restoration, in 1262, how interesting to observe the solid grounding of the fortunes of Bruges, city of Flanders, realm of the expelled Emperors of the Latin line. In the year 1262, --remarks Anderson, learned in all the annals of commerce before the Peace of Paris (1763), --the Hanseatic merchants first began to resort to the city of Bruges in Flanders, and soon after to make it one of their four great comptoirs, from which circumstance, Bruges greatly increased in riches and commerce; for the bulky commodities of the nations within the Baltic Sea, such as naval stores of all kinds, and iron, copper, corn, flax, timber, etc., beginning to be well known to the more Southern parts of Europe, by means of the numerous shipping of the Hans towns, became increasingly an.
