Joseph Biden with Kamala Harris as Vice President
The Chesapeake colonies had people who lived short and nasty lives because of all the diseases and dangers that could end their lives prematurely. This includes things like dysentery or typhoid. They could also get killed by animals or the locals. There was a lot of fighting between the people too because for each woman there were 6 men, so a lot of the men fought for women. Commonly people wouldn't go past their forties at best.
The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4. The convention also followed the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on June 5. Both Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had been running for the Democratic nomination at the time.
Ancient Egypt was a very popular place for trading in their time. The Egyptians traded gold, papyrus, linen, grain, and sometimes they would sell artifacts stolen from a pharaohs tomb. They would normally trade these items for cedar wood, ebony, ivory, lapis lazuli, incense, myrrh, iron, and copper.
Japan is a island country, or in other words an archipelago. Hence, it was hard for other imperial countries to invade Japan. Japan also isolated itself from the rest of civilization.
