Sentences with phrase «european mercantile»
As maize became ever more useful to people — as food and animal feed — it was carried beyond the volcanic soils of central Mexican valleys and the indigenous peoples of North and South America to the far reaches of the planet, at first by European mercantile and imperial powers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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A socialist understanding of human rights was evolved in Europe due to the oppression of the European working class under mercantile and industrial capitalism.