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Commerce

Money from sugar, tobacco, sea-island cotton, and other commodities grown in the New World with slave labor rivals money from East India Company ventures to create a growing leisure class in England. The Company has begun to export spices from India, challenging the Dutch (see 1780).

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2. Exploration, Colonization
3. Commerce
4. Technology
5. Science
6. Religion
7. Education
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9. Art
10. Theater, Film
11. Music
12. Sports
13. Architecture, Real Estate
14. Food And Drink
15. Restaurants
16. Population

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