The Crusades and the Medieval Trade Between Moslems and Christians

The crusades lead to the occupation of the levant by by latin europeans for several hundred years, and also the expansion of trade in those regions. So reallyim looking at that as a backdrop, it's sort of the gateway into contact between christians and moslems, and specially commercial contact. But offse it's completely tempered by the, you know, all this sort of religious conflict as well.