Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History, 8
We ve been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let s take a moment to zoom out, and look at the ways that individuals lives were changing in the time span we ve covered so far. Some people s lives were improving, thanks to innovations in agriculture and commerce, and the technologies that drove those fields. Lots of people s lives were also getting worse during this time, thanks to the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade. And these two shif
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