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To: TobagoJack who wrote (60277)1/22/2010 8:57:34 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217749
 
The Portuguese, who only knew how to buy and sell, blocked by Moslems of the Ottoman empire, who stopped the Silk Road went around and the rest is history.

That rich trade from the East after Portugal went around Cape of Good Hope, arrived in Europe created a rich class of Jews in Portugal.

They were expelled, went to Flandres (where today is Holland/ Belgium. From there they helped the Dutch take over the Portuguese empire.

People who only know how to buy and sell, and are not indusrialist, were very important to shape the world the way it is today.

You Chinese who are industrialist par execellence beware....
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