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Power over politics, economics, and society no longer belonged to the countryside, it belonged to the cities.
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Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy, during the year of 1254 to a family of merchants.
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The Polo's headed back to Venice, Italy, with 200 people in total, but 2 years later, when they got home, only 18 were alive.
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While Marco Polo was a prisoner in war, he met a writer, and he decided to write a book.
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Montesinos is the first Spaniard to speak out against the treatment of natives in the new world.
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De Las Casas talks about the mistreatment of the indies in New Spain/New World.