Golden Age of Invention: Matter of Factor
I’ve become interested in how some countries’ merchants became especially effective in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries — particularly the English and the Dutch. In some respects, this was determined by the qualities of their merchants’ ships, armaments, and navigational techniques. Both countries in the late sixteenth century mastered…
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