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Liz@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Sooorrrrta, extracting huge piles of wealth off the backs of your colonies is actually a decent way to up the standard of living back home and free up people for higher-tech.

That’s not actually what I was arguing though, I was just pointing out that that’s the obvious moment that completely changed the fate of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. None of those other contact events had any particular impact on the world. Colombus and the colonial era absolutely did. Good or bad wasn’t really my point.

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