I agree with your post. The end of feudalism had profound effects. Under feudalism, on the large estates (latifundia) peasants (vassals) had enjoyed the right to use the noble family's fields, woods (charcoal production was an important business), and pastures. This was in exchange for services ...

How interesting these posts. I'll be doing a presentation on the first Italians to settle in Ohio's Mahoning Valley. We have a small research group based on the findings of a descendant of one of the first to arrive in our area. Italians from Castle Garden and Blacks from Virginia arrived in Hubbard ...