how did the crusades increase trade between the east and the

The main way that the Crusades increased European interest in trade was by exposing them to more goods than they had previously known about trading for. When the Crusaders spent time in the Middle East, they found that the Arabs and other Muslims had been trading with places farther east.

chronological thinking is an indispensable tool to structure a historical narrative and to give meaning to a sequence of events. the final section presents the results of a survey to test the chronological thinking of lower secondary school students carried out by the educational research institute.