Years 1170

11th century | 12th century | 13th century

Years 1150 | Years 1160 | Years 1170 | Years 1180 | Years 1190

1170 | 1171 | 1172 | 1173 | 1174 | 1175 | 1176 | 1177 | 1178 | 1179

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Events

Economy & Company

  • Under the Ayyoubides, Egypt is again overexploited with the profit of the overdrawn Syria. Salah Aldine establishes to with it the system of the hereditary Iqtâ, which reduces freedoms of the peasants considerably. The demographic curve, very stable until the end of the 12th century, inflects. A certain control is compensated by the protection of the muqt' has hereditary, while the State controls the taxes and fixes the price of the food products, which appreciably improves personal and economic safety of the peasants.

  • the reunification of the Syria and the Egypt in 1175 allows the Syrian trade, hitherto in stagnation, to refleurir. The essence of the market is provided by local, agricultural products or industrialist (textiles, glassmaking, fine pottery, goldsmithery).

  • Egypt is then with the confluence of the Eastern big business. Alexandria receives by the Red Sea coming from the India S, of Arabia and Perse of aromatics, precious stones and especially of spices. Moreover, Egypt, which lacks wood and of iron, is a good market of export for the Westerners.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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