How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays
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In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?

Really tired of "Historians" talking about the growth of wealth in europe and fail to even mention the extreme exploitation of working people at home and mass genocides and robbery abroad.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      Or how the British caused repeated massive famines in India via exporting grain for resale in droughts. Or how they would use tax money extracted from Indian farmers to buy Indian goods and then resell them to Indians for a profit. Victorian India is like nazi shit tbqh.