Malign might be a good synonym for take away in social studies
1. (Religious answer) Because Abraham wouldn't worship false idols with his nephew, so he and his wife Sarah, left to settle in a different land which happened to be in the fertile crescent.
2. Because being close to the rivers and the floods made good farm land.
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They were concerned about that natural were being wasted
What was that "wrong idea"? What is the impact of the nuance of the word "handled" in the following excerpt: "I was immediately handled and tossed up to see if I were sound by some of the crew"? It shows the Africans were viewed as objects instead of human beings.
The characterization of mercantilism as a "set of practices" demonstrates the absence of a preconceived plan for the economic policy of European countries that, between the 16th and 18th centuries, disputed slices of American territory to keep them in the condition of colonies. During this period, in Europe, the wealth available in the world was thought of as something that could not be expanded, and therefore the absolutist states strove to secure for themselves as much of this supposedly limited wealth as possible. Gold and silver, circulating in the form of coins or locked in the coffers of kings were understood as their translation, hence the true search fever of the so-called metals