https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1461066547661836301
I love the idea of hundreds of small civilizations whose only record of existing is like going to war with Rome/Byzantine Empire or something having an accurate tally of all trades that occur domestically.
It’s not even per capita so this is basically just a population graph. Also X-axis is completely useless to interpret meaningfully here anyway.
1500 is the start point of good growth so this guy is just really enthusiastic about the Spanish enslaving indigenous Americans to mine silver.
He's telling on himself because as you said, what made that "hockey stick" shape was "slavery", end of.
That's also the end of the dark ages (the dark ages are not called the dark ages because they were bad, but because there was a lack of sources and records from then.)