The commercial cities of the Mediterranean world during the Middle Ages

Bousselam, Anass

doi:10.21608/ijcihe.2021.246835

The commercial cities of the Mediterranean world during the Middle Ages

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Anass Bousselam

Educational inspector for secondary education - Ministry of National Education - Morocco, and PhD researcher - history major - Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences - Ain Chock - Hassan II University - Casablanca

10.21608/ijcihe.2021.246835

Abstract

The city is a very old and contemporary reality for the beginning
of civilization, and we find the old city has taken many forms,
but they are all characterized by simplicity, and the emergence of
the first urban revolution was linked to the agricultural
revolution, or in other words, the emergence of cities was
preceded by a revolution in food production, when social and
technical conditions were available that allowed the agricultural
sector to It achieves a production that exceeds the needs of the
community, as this surplus has become feeding a group of
individuals in the community, and this group has settled in the
city to carry out work other than agriculture. It is the same and
here lies the importance of the topic, and finally, academic
research on this topic in general is enriching the global history of
the Mediterranean region.

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