Time Frame
The commercial revolution ran from approximately the late 14th century, through the 18th century, with Walt Whitman Rostow saying the beginning is "arbitrarily" 1488, the year the first European sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Historian Peter Spufford indicates that there was a commercial revolution of the 13th century, or that it began at this point, rather than later.
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