Early Trade. The first Europeans to purchase furs from Indians wereFrench and English fishermen who, during the 1500s, fished off the coast of northeastern Canada and occasionally traded with the Indians. In exchange, the Indians received European-manufactured goods such as guns, metal cooking utensils, and cloth.
Most disturbing and horrific would probably be the way that workers could be mutilated by the machines or by human error and nobody would care about that. They would have to keep working without fingers or hands because not working would mean the end of their families. The injuries sometimes didn't have to be mutilation but were still severe.
<span>The silver standard is a monetary standard that relies of the fixed weight of silver as the economic unit of account. It became widespread from the fall of the Byzantine empire and was used by many regions including Great Britain, China, and India before being eventually replaced with the gold standard until it was abandoned during the early 20th century.</span>
