In his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn cites examples from US colonial history of the gap between rich and poor in colonial life.
A key study cited by Zinn examined tax registers from Boston, showing that the top 1% of the population held 25% of the wealth in 1687, and that by 1770, the top 1% of property owners in Boston owned 44% of the wealth. The study also noted that the bulk of Boston's population were not property owners. The percentage of adult males in Boston who owned no property doubled between 1687 and 1770 (from 14% to 29%).
Zinn cited additional items, regarding overcrowding of poorhouses (giving a notable example from New York) and a general increase throughout the colonies of the "wandering poor" who had no real means of support. He also cited examples of workers' strikes against employers in the colonies because of low wages.
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Another way that the two new superpowers differed was their economic policies (capitalism in the US, communism in the USSR) and their governmental systems (democratic republic in the US, totalitarianism in the USSR).
Before the Great Emancipation of 1861, 10.5 million serfs were privately owned, 9.5 million were owned by the State, and about 900,000 worked for the Tsar himself.
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Scholars study the bronze export goods that fill shipwrecks from the era.
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Scholars have carried out studies that include a report of the 1960 excavation of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck in Gelidonya, that included another publication and a summary of conclusions. Also, there have been other discoveries which include artifacts and took place in Cape Gelidonya from 1987 until 1989, the excavation of another earlier Late Bronze Age shipwreck of Turkey, and the results of modern techniques of analysis performed in laboratories.
