Why might the italian city-states have resisted the exploration around the world?
the discovery of new trade routes to the east threatened the city-state's control over that trade.
the technological innovations that allowed new discoveries were adding to the wealth of italy's enemies.
the search for new protestant converts threatened the power of the papal states and rome itself.
the italian city-states were fearful that new trade routes would raise the influence of islamic empires.

The discovery of new trade routes to the east threatened the city-state's control over that trade

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

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before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.

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