European countries use trade to gain wealth
The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s - England, Spain, France and Portugal.
I think that the differences in religion played a large role in the foundation of abuse that the Turks perpetrated upon the Armenians. With the dominant religion of Armenia as Christianity, the Muslim Turks were able to assert the primacy of their own religion on the subjugated Armenians. This resulted in many reforms based on religious discrimination that started the pattern of abuse which laid the foundations for the Genocide. Political and social rights violations...
The abolitionist movement was very powerful in the North, since the North did not rely heavily on a slave population and because slavery had long-since been depleted in the region.
It would be in a "direct democracy" in which all citizens participate directly in the government, since they would vote on each individual matter directly instead of electing representatives to vote for them.
