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The discoveries of Galileo and other scientists posed a threat to major tenets of the Church´s doctrines and its position. Let´s look at it in this way: The Church maintained that Earth is the center of our system because it was God´s creation. It is implied that the Church of God is at the center of the whole system. So, if Earth was not the center of our solar system, as Galileo stated following his findings, if the planet orbits the Sun, then the Church is not at the center of our known universe and its position is questioned.
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In 1501, shortly after Christopher Columbus discovered America, Spain and Portugal began shipping African slaves to South America to work on their plantations. In the 1600s, English colonists in Virginia began buying Africans to help grow tobacco.
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The main attraction was the possibility of having slaves, since the owners of farms needed cheap and very abundant labor. Precisely this great attraction of owning slaves and being able to cultivate enromes quantities of land, was what would lead to the American Civil War; being the slavery, the first reason of the great growth of the southern wealth, thanks to its enormous plantations of cotton and tobacco; but after the war, this was the reason why the southern states suffered economic crises and had to request loans from the Federal Government for reconstruction; also that the very loss of the slaves led to the economic problems of the South.
One of the largest yes, but not the largest. The largest would be the Scandinavian Peninsula.
