Yes exchanging goods is ment as trade. Not a lot of people were wealthy enough to buy and sell.
Enlightenment = Meditating under Bodhi Tree.
Life of suffering = Life with religious ascetics.
Life given to pleasures = Life as Hindu prince.
Karl Marx. he wrote the Communist Manifesto along with Friedrich Engels in 1848.
This indeed is true. When the United States of America accused China of human rights violations this without any doubt negatively affected the way how these two mighty nations conversed with each others and how the diplomatic relationships continued.
The fifteenth Amendment covers
the right to vote regardless of color. It did not allow states from denying any
citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition
as a slave. The African American men granted the right to vote.