Unkotare
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- Aug 16, 2011
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I wonder how, if white men needed a significant head start, how did they get ahead in the first place?
The Bubonic Plague. Gold star to anyone who can explain why.
The people that died left their money to their survivors. So many people died and so many people inherited money and property from their dead relatives that a large number people suddenly found themselves wealthy. They invested and spent their money on luxury goods such as spices; this stimulated the economy to the point that a common sailor returning from the spice isles could be set for life with the sell of his personal supply of spices.
Good answer. Partial credit.