Recent content by thegastation

When I was playing with my close friend, we agreed at the beginning of the match to NEVER attack each other. How do I respond? After finding out he culturally took my horse tile, I declared war on him, killed 3 of his missionaries and put a good 4,000 people to the sword. (razed 4 cities) Right...

OY! I said slavery wasn't profitable with capitalism. Mercantilism is another story. What I'm more concerned with is that even though both of us more or less agree with the other's views, to an extent, (we have a fundamentaly different way of thinking, its surprising we've gotten this far)...

I would love to continue having these historical debates, white laughter. :lol: Though the reason why I don't see the reason between serfdom and slavery is that although serfs had more rights than slaves, its not like they were any more different. I realize the difference between serf and slave...

Well the reason slavery was abolished in the modern era was because capitalism which replaced mercantilism made the entire system incredibly inefficient and costly. Slave revolts, low production, ecetera, only emphasized in the Industrial Revolution. As for serfdom...well it was the exact same...