And first, you know, you have the Columbian Exchange, Columbus, remember? You know, kind of the Columbian Exchange of finding out, you know, that the new world has all these new cool things like corn and, you know, pineapples and tobacco. That's going to cause even more pressure to create even more trade routes. And then you get mercantilism and triangular trade. Triangular trade is when these European powerhouses go to Africa and through the Middle Passage capture and take as human hostages, really, tens of millions of black Africans into the new world. Why? So they can take those raw materials.