Columbus was a product of Genoese bourgeois trade and manufacturing
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- Columbus’s voyages were the financial project of Genoese merchant capital (similarity 0.80)
- Columbus’s success depended on three centuries of Genoese capitalist infrastructure, not personal qualities (similarity 0.80)
- Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.78)
- Columbus served the Spanish Crown’s drive to unify Spain and secure independent capital (similarity 0.78)