2 American cruise liners were sunk by Germany; the Lusitania in 1915, and the <span>Housatonic in 1917 (it turns out though that the US was hiding weapons on board the Lusitania, and was trying to use the civilians on the vessel as a way to stop the Germans from attacking it).</span>
A student loan must be paid back, but a scholarship is not paid back
In the Elizabethan great chain of being, it was "minerals" that were at the lowest rung of human society, since it was believed that these were the foundations of plant life and nothing more.
The soviet union is an extremely dangerous and sketchy country.
When the western Roman empire collapsed in 476 AD, the unifying force for most of Europe was gone. Along with the loss of the government, much of the engineering abilities and "modern amenities" were also lost. The "barbarians" of Europe did not, for the most part, have the abilities or knowledge to build roads, aqueducts or the other marvels of the Roman Empire, which is why the period immediately after Rome's collapse is often referred to as the "Dark Ages".
The only unifying force of any sort left would be Constantine's Roman Catholic church, which did manage to preserve some of the knowledge and vestiges of the empire. As the only thing left really, it became the main power in the European world throughout the Middle Ages, functioning almost as an imperial government until Luther set off the Reformation in 1546.
