The geography of the Silk Roads then is a complex interaction between the physical and climate zones of mountain, steppe or grasslands, and river valleys and oases which often are bounded by uninhabitable desert. Thus populations could be dispersed (in the grasslands) or concentrated in the oases and river valley
thank me and mark me as brainlies
bondage, enslavement, servitude,
thralldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage
"thousands were sold into slavery"
During this period, the working class people demanded reform due to unjustifiably low payment and harsh work conditions.
Reformers felt that the policy of forcing Native Americans onto reservations was too harsh while industrialists, who were concerned about their land and resources, viewed assimilation, the cultural absorption of the American Indians into “white America ” as the sole long-term method of ensuring Native American survival.
