Answer:
-3,000 - 9/10 - by the end of the war it was about 12,000
Explanation:
What fuelled the great explorations of Spain and Portugal weren't because they liked doing it, it was because silk and spices were super expensive to be traded along the Silk Road, past Arab states that imposed hefty taxes, and had to be shipped all the way across the Mediterranean Sea, where ports made fortunes by levying even more on the goods.
This is not merely a hypothetical but a reality.
Take Rwanda.
Rwanda was drawn without an understanding of the ethnic make up.
And, in effect, a minority population was given control over a majority population.
This is problematic as it creates tensions that should not exist.
