Western Civilization II / Unit 13 WC2 1215 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Plunder Economies, and Borders Drawn
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The idea
The anchor's term is plunder economies: land expropriated, raw materials shipped out, labor exploited from slavery to subsistence wages. Borders split and lumped peoples, and favored groups such as the Tutsi over the Hutu carried the division past independence.
In practice
Java's Dutch quotas, "semi-slavery" in the anchor's phrase.
Where people slip
"Plunder economies" is the anchor's characterization.
Your place on the trail
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