European economies in the Middle Ages were importing economies, we had a massive trade deficit with China (history goes in cycles apparently XD). European nations were based on trade and agriculture, it didn't change until Spain revolutionised tra... read more
Another important export was the means of transportation itself, that being the ships. Europe was one of the ship building centre of the world at that time, both Venice and Genoa were reknowned for their master skills and later on catched up by the Dutch and Flanders and England. read more
Medieval Christian Spain. An organizing principle of medieval Spain was the Reconquista,the Crusade by which territories that had once been Christian and Visigothic were recaptured and Christianized. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was mythologized as the virtuous El Cid and is remembered as instrumental in this effort. read more