The correct answer is - corporations.
The growth and constant development of the industry enabled suitable conditions for the formation of the first corporations. The corporations are basically businesses that are owned by multiple investors. All of the investors buy stocks of the company, or are given certain amount of stocks for holding a certain high position in the office of the company. The amount of stocks an investor has is reflected on the profit the investor gets, the more stocks the more profit and vice versa, but also more stocks mean more investment as well in the company.
This type of businesses saw a rapid growth and quickly they became the dominant business type in the Western countries, in fact they are still the by far most dominant business type in the present day.
Although it is often claimed that Christians were persecuted for their refusal to worship the emperor, general dislike for Christians likely arose from their refusal to worship the gods or take part in sacrifice, which was expected of those living in the Roman Empire.
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The Dawes Plan provided short term economic benefits to the German economy. It softened the burdens of war reparations, stabilized the currency, and brought increased foreign investments and loans to the German market. However, it made the German economy dependent on foreign markets and economies, and therefore problems with the U.S. economy (e.g. the Great Depression) would later severely hurt Germany as it did the rest of the western world, which was subject to debt repayments for loans of American dollars.
<span>After World War I, this cycle of money from U.S. loans to Germany, which then made reparations to other European nations, which then used the money to pay off their debts to America, locked the western world's economy on that of the U.S. </span>
<span>Charles G. Dawes was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925, in recognition of his work on the Dawes Plan. </span>
