How did the fall of Constatinopla affect world trade?

Explanation:

The Fall of Constantinople severely hurt trades in the European region. The Ottoman conquest affected the highly lucrative Italian trade and gradually reduced trade bases in the region. Also the fall was just the first step that eventually turned the Black Sea and the Mediterranean into Turkish lakes for trade.

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the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire