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What mutual exchanges? The west doesn't really have anything to offer to China that China can't pay for with commodities.
 
What mutual exchanges? The west doesn't really have anything to offer to China that China can't pay for with commodities.

However, soon or later and in some matter these discoveries must arrive in Europe... Probably Persia for first, then Byzantium, and lastly the West...
 
Prominent Noble Houses in the ERE c. Late 12th-Early 13th century.

Greek:
-Ducas: Pronoiai of Epirus
-Palaeologoi: Pronoiai of Thessalonika
-Stephanoi: Doux of Lazica, Pronoiai of Ani
-Bessarids: Pronoiai of Morea
-Diogenes: Pronoiai of Adrianople
-Vatazes: Doux of Crete
-Bryennius: Pronoiai of Athens
-Dalasseonoi: Pronoiai of Corinth
-Tzimiskes: Pronoiai of Belgrade
-Xanthids: Pronoiai of Ragusa
-Angeloi: Pronoiai of Zagreb
-Maleinoi: Pronoiai of Rhodes
-Lascarids: Pronoiai of Dyrrhachium

Bulgarian:
-Asen: Pronoiai of Preslav
-Cometopuli: Doux of Bulgaria
-Komnenoi (Descendants of Isaac and Alexius): Doux of Trebizond, Pronoiai of Philippolis, Governor of Cyprus

Frankish: Mostly made up of Franks who fled France.
-Capet: Pronoiai of Milan
-Luisgnan: Pronoiai of Venice
-Burgundy: Exarchate of Ravenna
-Orleans: Pronoiai of Turin
-Valois: Pronoiai of Genoa
-Montferrat: Pronoiai of Florence

Norman:
-Guiscard: King of Italy, Bishopric of Rome
-d'Hautville: Doux of Sicily
-Arianopolids: Doux of Greater Armenia

German:
-Salian Line (Descendants of Conrad I of Jerusalem): Kingdom of Jerusalem
-Hohenstaufen (Cadet branch, illegitimate descendants of Frederick III): Pronoiai of Aqaba

Armenian:
-Phokas: Doux of Crimea
-Rubenids: Pronoiai of Sis
-Hethumids: Pronoiai of Tarsus

Turkic:
-Osmanlis: Opsikian Beylik
-Komnenids (Descendants of John II): Caesars of Constantinople
-Seljukids: Anatolikon Beylik
-Zengi: Atabegate of Mosul
-Saltuklids: Beylik of Sozopolis
-Togrulids: Beylik of Smyrna
-Eldiguzids: Atabegate of Azerbaijan
-Chakids: Beylik of Antalya
-Tayluids: Beylik of Ezurum
-Karamanids: Beylik of Kayseri
-Germiyanids: Beylik of Malatya
-Eshrefids: Beylik of Sivas

Cuman:
-Kuthen: Pronoiai of Tanais
-Tihomirids: Pronoiai of Caffa
-Togrotids: Pronoiai of Antioch
-Bunaqids: Pronoiai of Harran
-Basarabids: Pronoiai of Ilfov

Kurdish:
-Ayyubi: Atabegate of Kirkuk, Atabegate of Dvin
 
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Early 1175:

Italy: Altanxie's forces retake Ravenna. The fighting is once again very, very bloody.

Austria: Andronikos Komnenos is imprisoned for gross incompetence after losing the Battle of Lebring. More troops are transfered from the east to the west. Leo has for all intents and purposes declared war against all of Latin Christendom.

Kura: Slaves, ivory and gold are imported from Kura in exchange for steel, textiles and salt. The local Igbo and Yoruba peoples prosper under this arrangement.

Somalia: Several Mogadishu clans form a cartel to manage the large animal populations in the plains to the south. They can charge the Chinese much more money if they limit the supply. The clans also ruthlessly police the savannas against poachers, paying the local Masai people a bounty for every poacher they kill.

Mid 1175:

Vinland: The Greenland Norse establish a second settlement in Vinland on the island of Manahata (1).

Lake Huron: On the recommendation of some of the Norse, the Ojibwa people begin to search for iron ore in their territories.

Erling Skakke, leader of the Markland Norse notices that the Ojibwa have very few domesticated animals. Only problem is that the Markland Norse are persona non grata back in Europe and thus cannot return.

Vinland is highly insular and rather out of the way. Not many people, even in Norway, know that there is a land to the west.

Transoxiana: Bukhara falls to the Khitan army.

Late 1175:

Italy: Modena surrenders. Altanxie decides to spare the city's residents.

Constantinople: Leo calls a council of clerics to hammer out any doctrinal differences between the Latin and Greek churches.
 
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