The final solution was the Nazis' answer to a problem that they didn't have. It consisted of demonizing and persecuting people they didn't like, and then working them, starving them, and killing them. Roughly six million Jews died during the Nazi Holocaust.
Italian city-states like Venice and Genoa were located on the trade routes that linked the rest of western Europe with the East. Both these city-states became bustling trading centers. ... The increase of trade led to a new kind of economy. During the middle ages people traded goods for other goods.
