The development that probably hurt it is the reduction of open range herding. In history, people could just let their cattle roam freely and find food since the plains were huge and nobody lived in them. Nowadays, this can be problematic because there are more and more people and settlements and roads with cars so free range herding has been drastically reduced which cost the herders a lot.
It was horrible. In fact, it was in The Great Depression.
Many people were unemployed, hand no home, and had very low wages.
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They learned to have a better navy, because they hired Greek captains to help them become better sailors since their sailors were pretty bad. Once they boarded the enemy then they engaged had-to-hand combat.