compare and contrast the attitudes of Christianity and Islam toward merchants and trade from the religions' origins until about 1500

Christianity was agaisnt trade first but then became slightly positive but Muslim were in favor of trade.

Explanation:

Christianity was the religion which was not in favor of trade and thought that it was unfair in the beginning. But later on they got slightly positive and but they still had negative problems with trade.

On the other side, Muslim was in favor of the trade but one problem that they had with trade was that trade could be unfair if some of the merchants in the trade were trying to make extra money from any kind of the trade. But they were more positive than the Christians.