There has been debate as to the foundation of the settlement patterns. We show that Maya settlement locations were strongly influenced by environmental factors, primarily topographic slope, soil fertility, and soil drainage properties.
A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.
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They own all the agricultural and mining land. The remaining land owned by black people is lar. The land is, by far, the most important benefit white South Africans gained from colonialism and apartheid.
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https://www.quora.com/How-have-white-South-Africans-benefited-from-colonialism-and-apartheid
Farmers were very much affected by the panic of 1893.
One of the factors of the panic were the populists. The populists was a political party that was against capitalism and had hostility against cities, elites, banks, railroads and gold miners - everything that symbolized capitalism - it was supported by farmers.
Another factor was the free silver movement. This movement consisted of the defense of silver as a movement of economic justice. Farmers defended this movement because they were full of debt and they wanted to have the right to turn silver directly into money without a central mining institution. This also was a platform of the populist party.
