The awakening of the Christian West  in trade, industry and farming in the Middle Ages highlights and confirms many crucial points made previously:

 First, the impact of the 12^th century translations in the awakening of such activities is inexistent, or shallow at best, which proves that the generally held theory in Western history that the 12^th century renaissance of the Christian West  owes to the translations of Greek  science  is ridiculous.

Second, the changes in these areas highlight, once more, that all changes that took place in the Christian West  at the time were not due to fortuitous conditions, or to local factors, or to the recovery of lost heritage, but form part of a larger ensemble of changes, that affected each and every area of learning, science, economy, art, culture, and civilisation as a whole.

Third, as this chapter will confirm, these transformations, just  as every other transformation that took place in the 12^th-13^th century, did so only once contact with Islam was made, and bears obvious Islamic resemblance.

Fourth, this chapter also confirms previously observed patterns that it was principally the parts of Western Christendom  that had contacts with Islam that were first transformed in the particular fields they were in contact with Islam. This is most particularly relevant to the Italian cities, which were the most important traders with Islam, and which, by some coincidence, once more, were the first in Western Christendom to show major transformations in industrial crafts, techniques, and also trade mechanisms and banking.