How Agriculture, Trade, and Slavery Transformed Europe

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This episode of Crash Course European History shifts focus from the political battles of kings and queens to the transformative changes in everyday life during the early modern period (roughly 1500-1750). Host John Green explores how the Commercial and Agricultural Revolutions fundamentally altered European society, moving it from a subsistence economy to one of surplus and global trade. The video examines how innovations in farming—like crop rotation, new tools, and the introduction of New World crops like the potato—led to a population boom, even amidst ongoing religious wars.