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No, it is generally false that countries sought new trade routes to avoid the high prices associated with the Mediterranean, since transporting goods by seas was almost always cheaper and more efficient than transporting by land.
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The difference between slavery and its more modern variety was manumission – the ability of slaves to be freed. However, the law gave any children born to freedmen, after formal manumission, full rights of citizenship, including the right to hold office. Informal manumission gave fewer rights.