... needed new markets and resources, new territory, new wealth and, the Catholic Church having founded the "Holy Roman Empire,"" sought to extend the influence of "Holy Mother Church- throughout the world. The year 1500 is commonly used as a time stamp for the beginning of the Renaissance, but ... in many parts of the Mediterranean such as southern Italy, Crete, and Mediterranean Spain. Plantations in the Mediterranean bought Greek, Caucasian and Moorish slaves in response to labor shortages. As the costs for these euro-slaves increased, slave buyers and sellers looked to blacks from sub- ....

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