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The Middle Ages is a period characterized by decline of cities and reduced movement of people. People stayed in the rural areas rather than in the cities, and there was little trade or immigration. The common people were tied to their land (manors), farmed it, and send portions to their lords. Change came when farmers and small-scale craft producers increasingly met in towns or cities to trade goods, and developed into trade guilds. These guilds became powerful as financiers backed merchants/farmers/craft producers, stimulating trade and development of market economy. The resulting growth of wealth urged peasants to flock into cities, bringing an end to manorialism
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Many groups of people benefited from the establishment of British colonies in the Americas.
Explanation:
The British Crown benefited because it obtained a new source of income, especially since it applied a mercantilist policy with the colonies, which allowed the metropolis to run trade surpluses with the colonies.
The founders of the colonies, and the subsequent elites of these benefited because they could obtain great wealth from what was essentially unexploited territory.
Finally, colonists/settlers themselves also benefited, by having a safe haven where to go if things in Britain where too hard for them. This is especially true since many of the British settlers in the Americas were either persecuted religious people, or poor peasants who had nothing to lose.
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The Olmecs were a people living in the south of central Mexico. They dominated their areas from approximately 1200 BC to 800 BC. Their homeland was characterized by swampy lowlands with scattered, hilly ridges and volcanoes. The Olmecs built permanent cities and laid the foundation for the development of other later cultures in Mesoamerica such as the Mayans. Their political system was made up of highly hierarchical city states, which were copied by other cultures that followed the Olmecs.
On the other hand, the Zapotecs were a tribe living in the southern part of Mexico, in current Oaxaca. The most famous urban center of the Zapotecs was Monte Alban, located at the top of a mountain, where heeled images formerly known as dancers have been found, which are now thought to depict dead soldiers or tortured prisoners of war.