Richard Drummond
Banned
Perhaps that would indeed be the case though I assume it'd be more expensive to get goods from Latin America than the Middle East.Coffee too? Maybe the idea that you don't have to deal with Muslims at all is appealing to the Church in rome.
Though its a bit off topic, I wonder if the Christian/Muslim border had shifted heavily in the Old World. Have the Muslims attacked Iberia again or Italy. Have they pushed deeper into the Balkans or have the Greeks seized swathes of Anatolia perhaps.