its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the development of the slave trade in many colonies, including America. The colonies provided rum, cotton, and other products demanded by African imperialists. In turn, slaves were returned to America or the West Indies and traded for sugar and ...
displacement, and emigration of whole Jewish communities to the newly created state of Israel. Initially most members of these communities identified to their original locality (Polish from this or that city) just as much as Arab Christians were entrenched in theirs. Zionism was born out of a re...
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In 1494, Lisbon increased the volume of global trade astronomically as slaves began to be extracted from Africa and sold to imperial powers to provide labor in the New World. As the successor to the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire was initially a useful entity for the Catholic Church to...
These were pastoral societies, often on the move, and the ability to wear your money in the form of strands of beautiful beads was useful. These beads maintained a high stock-to-flow ratio because they were kept and traded as money, while being hard to produce with their level of technolo...
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