Trade routes For Republics?

[robomax]

Will their trade be routes added for Republics and a Tax System for Kings and Emperors to Tax Trade?
Since Republics can only build a Trade Post or Trade port. Kings and Empires that Republics put up in their realm would be able tax the Republics. Therefore Feudal Governments benefiting from Trade. (Since Feudal cant build Trade post(Inland) or Trade ports(Sea based). The Kings would be Taxing the Tax you as a Republic collect from that Trade Post. Example you get say 12 gold a year from a trade post you put up in France. The King of France based on is trade Practices could Tax you on the tax you collect from that trade post. Say LVL 1is 10% that's 1.2 gold a year from the one trade post . If the King of France has 10 of your Trade Post then that's 12 gold a year to the king of France the Republic still gets 90%. The more he like you the King of France the less trade Tariffs Imposed if he doesn't like you he would could raise up to 50%. Of course event and playing hardball with other competing Republics would come into play. Some of the CBs for Republics might Change also. Counting the fact that you can from non-aggression pacts. And an Alliance could knock out Competing Republics.

With a separate tax in Laws . And Be a different tax system. (Base in Trade practices on how much kings or Higher could Tax as Trade Tariffs.)
Map represents a Historical point of View at the height of the Merchant Republics in the Medieval Period. 1425AD.


The Viking Trade routes are not on this map. (So their would be Trade Ports in Ireland and Ice Land)

 

[robomax]

Trade was Key back then . The Crusades were Really a pre-text to gaining wealth and control trade. Its a Major part of History that has been left untouched or ignored. So if you disagree please state why and use historical facts??? Leaving trade out of them game makes the game Ahistorical.

 

[Toa Kraka]

The Crusades were Really a pre-text to gaining wealth and control trade.

That would be particularly nice to see--having the Crusades triggered when a Zealous king- or emperor-tier ruler of Jerusalem messes with Christian pilgrims (or traders), rather than sometime after the arbitrary date of 1000 CE is reached.

 

[Remke]

What are you asking for? The overland routes across Europe? The current Republic sea trade system handles sea trade routes fairly well as it is. Meanwhile, Feudal rulers do get taxes from trade, just indirectly. Trade increases the income of cities significantly, which gets back to the city's overlord through taxes.

As for the idea that the Crusades were undertaken as some kind of attempt to control trade routes, that view is pretty heavily disputed by modern historians.

 

[khardinal]

What are you asking for? The overland routes across Europe? The current Republic sea trade system handles sea trade routes fairly well as it is. Meanwhile, Feudal rulers do get taxes from trade, just indirectly. Trade increases the income of cities significantly, which gets back to the city's overlord through taxes.

As for the idea that the Crusades were undertaken as some kind of attempt to control trade routes, that view is pretty heavily disputed by modern historians.

Indeed, the first crusade had no link at all with trade concerns.
But the crusades were not all the same, and some later, especially conducted by venetians had some great trade concerns.

 

[2ndPorphyry]

Yeah it wasn't until the Venetians hijacked the Fourth "Crusade" that economics became a major motivation (though that was as much a case of revenge with profit on top, see the latin massacres of a few decades earlier) and that was only a crusade in its initial inspiration/organization, only superficially in actual execution (except insofar as Catholicism was becoming more and more intolerant of eastern Christianity).

Any time some major historical movement gets reduced to a one line reductionist generalization, you're in dangerously untenable waters. And the Crusades especially have been one of the greatest victims of that kind of thinking for centuries. (See I just did it! or at least I did regarding the commentary, whatever.)

Point is, sh*t's complicated.