After reading chapters 18 and 19, I can conclude that chapter 18 involved more information about what the big six European countries ( France, Dutch, England, Russia, Spain, and Germany), where it discussed their power. Chapter 18 also talked about the slavery and how Africa and Europe traded slaves in exchange for European goods. What I enjoyed to read about was chapter 19 when they discussed the aristocracy and bourgeois. Aristocracy was the wealthiest social group in Europe. Their income came from land and aristocratic people owned at least 1/3 of all land. Aristocracy reached new heights when the European population was growing. When the population was growing the aristocratic people had more slaves under their control, the landed nobility