In the 17th and 18th centuries, France had its eyes on creating a worldwide trading empire. French merchant families began sending young men--teenagers by …
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Episode 96: Louis XIV’s Absolutism and the “Affair of the Poisons”
Satanic masses. Child sacrifice. Renegade priests who deal in love potions and black magics. And a secret tribunal set up to weed out the unholy members of …
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Episode 81: The Trans-Pacific Silver Trade and Early-Modern Globalization
With the establishment of Manila as a Spanish trading port in 1571, one of the most important economic links in the early modern world was established. Spanish …
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