_________ merchants controlled most land and maritime trade routes in the years leading up to the 1400s. A. European B. Indian and Chinese C. African D. Arab and Asian
Arab and Asian cultures controlled the trade routes all around the middle east and parts of Europe because they had more raw materials than the rest of the world at that time, until the Euro's starting colonizing the Americas. Then France came along and starting controlling more and more trade routes and greatly impacted trade and culture forever.
