Predicting Consequences 4. How would the early history of the Americas have
been different if there had been no slave trade?

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During the middle of the 1800s, cotton became the world's largest commodity. The cheapest and best cotton came from the southern United States.

Germanic tribes had attacked The Roman Empire throughout its existence, since the Empire is so vast these attacks happen in different areas which make it hard for Roman legions to communicate with leadership due to messages taking weeks, maybe months to send and receive from Rome. The Empire was also having economic troubles as constant waging of wars costed money. The Roman Empire was just to big of a territory to maintain with their Technology. The government was very corrupt (example: Julius Caesar's death). Christianity was on the rise thus making Roman tradition practicing slowly extinct.

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