Jeff Scudder
WHH
12/15/03
Crusade Essay

	I believe that the most important outcome of all the crusades would have to be the fact that trading increased. Merchants had more flexibility and people could get the goods they wanted.
	With the crusades coming to an end, many new trade routes to new and exciting countries filled with goods and valuable objects opened to the merchants. This helped the economy of the empires. Merchants could go to a new country and get things that nobody has ever seen before, and through this the merchants helped mix cultures, and spread news, and even advance the whole of society and science. Think about it, if you have one country working on a product, the production would go slowly. But if you had several, the ideas and quality of the product would increase. Merchants helped spread news of wars and disasters, since they traveled alot. With the new trade routes, the merchants could trade faster than ever! The routes were most likely much less dangerous and well traveled, so people could get their goods fast and in time. This also brought about the idea of spices, which came from china and countries bordering china. Spices were in high demand, because it helped spoiled meat taste better and was a luxury to many people. Lords even handed out salt to their Serfs. The increase in trading made everything faster and more efficient in society.
	The most important outcome of the crusades was that trading and trade routes increased, thus making it easier to trade, and recieve and send news to other countries.