The joint-stock company, in which individuals invested and profited in proportion to the number or shares purchased, was the principal instrument of England's overseas expansion. The first permanent English colony in the New World was the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.
It was the "(1) location on waterways" that was a geographic factor that enabled the cities of <span>Nanjing and Mogadishu to develop into powerful trading centers.</span>
The abolitionist argument that is most rooted in religion, according to the excerpt, is that <span>God does not consider one race inferior to another. The author clearly states that the color of one's skin is irrelevant when it comes to human relations, and that ultimately, black people should not be slaves merely because they are black - they are certainly not inferior to white people.</span>
