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The 16th century was a period of vigorous economic expansion. This expansion in turn played a major role in the many other transformations social, political, and cultural of the early modern age. By 1500 the population in most areas of Europe was increasing after two centuries of decline or stagnation. The bonds of commerce within Europe tightened, and the wheels of commerce in the phrase of the 20th century French historian Fernand Braudel spun ever faster. The great geographic discoveries then in process were integrating Europe into a world economic system. New commodities, many of them imported from recently discovered lands, enriched material life. Not only trade but also the production of goods increased as a result of new ways of organizing production. Merchants, entrepreneurs, and bankers accumulated and manipulated capital in unprecedented volume. Most historians locate in the 16th century the beginning, or at least the maturing, of Western capitalism.
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Utopia describes what an ideal society should be like.
You must be 35 years old, born in the United States (or be a resident for 14 years)
The author is making a cultural allusion, comparing the character to something in our present day culture.
<span>On December 1, 1774, the Continental Association was created to boycott all contact with British goods. By reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists
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