... by the war) continued. Governments tried to lower their exchange rates to gain advantages in global trade and to turn inwards, raising tariffs, but since everyone was playing the same game to do so closed off potential benefits for trade and made existing difficulties worse. The world economy drifted into the Great Depression, which involved slow economic growth and high unemployment ... obviously, the monopoly of manufacturing production in the West meant the developing world had to produce more and more primary commodities to pay for the same amount of imports of final goods, or tools...

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... depopulation during the same period as a result of disease, warfare with both whites and between tribes, and the destruction of the natural wilderness by white farmers and subsequent depletion of game. From 1680-1770, the overall east coast Indian population declined 50-75%, with many tribes disappearing altogether. While Africans and Indians had different fates (the Africans continued to exist " ... legislatures proved ultimately beneficial to the various constituencies. Thus, the political systems that emerged from 1680-1770 share all of the essential characteristics that define m...

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