{"slug": "trade", "label": "Trade", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q601401", "qid": "Q601401", "description": "exchange of goods and services", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [439, 907], "span_label": ["439 CE", "907 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kievan-rus", "label": "Kievan Rus'", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ukraine", "label": "Ukraine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "varangians", "label": "Varangians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosnia-and-herzegovina", "label": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodosius-ii", "label": "Theodosius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sava", "label": "Sava", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "market-place", "label": "Market (place)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Hun and Roman envoys meet at Margum (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), an important market town on the Sava River. After negotiations, Attila and his brother Bleda, who are present, accept a four-point peace plan. Trading rights between the two states are confirmed and emperor Theodosius II pays an annual tribute of 700 pounds of gold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Byzantium", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 599, "year_label": "599 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "King Khosrau II sends a Persian expedition to South Arabia and conquers Yemen. He establishes a military base to control the sea trade with the East (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752063#Persia", "title": "599", "revid": 1364752063, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 700, "year_label": "700 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Hamwic emerges as a major Wessex trading town (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806781#Britain", "title": "700", "revid": 1340806781, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The city of Sijilmasa (modern Morocco) is founded by the Miknasa, a Zenata Berber tribe. They adopt Kharijism-Islam, and establish the Emirate of Sijilmasa in the northern Sahara. It becomes a wealthy trading center as the western end-point of the Trans-Saharan trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Africa", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 796, "year_label": "796 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Offa of Mercia and Charlemagne seal a trading agreement, and a marriage alliance is proposed. However, Offa dies after a 39-year reign, that has incorporated Kent, Essex, Sussex, and East Anglia into the Mercian realm. Offa is buried at Bedford, and succeeded for a short time by his son Ecgfrith, and then a distant cousin, Coenwulf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907018#Britain", "title": "796", "revid": 1364907018, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 907, "year_label": "907 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rus'–Byzantine War: Varangian prince Oleg of Novgorod leads the Kievan Rus' in a campaign against Constantinople, concluded by the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (in which the city of Chernihiv in Ukraine is first mentioned). He lays siege to the Byzantine capital with some 2,000 ships (dugout boats), and secures trading rights from the world's leading center of commerce.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130849#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "907", "revid": 1341130849, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}