The United States was willing to pay more per mile for the Gadsden Purchase than for the Mexican Cession because the Gadsden Purchase gave money to the United States to build a railroad.
The enslaved people in Sparta were called Helots.
They were actually the majority of the people in the land dominated by Sparta, according to Herodotus, as many as seven times more than the Spartans.
They worked primarily in agriculture.
The Helots were regularly killed by the Spartans.
Archaeology is the study of cultures that lived in the past. It is a subfield of anthropology, the study of human cultures. ... Archaeologists look for patterns in the artifacts they study that give them clues about how the people who made and used them lived.
Economic boom refers to the expansion and peak phase of a business cycle. Economic activities increases in the sectors of gross domestic product, productivity and income. The post World war II economic expansion, the long boom, and the Golden Age of capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning after the second world war and ending with the recession of 1973 - 1975. In this case, the Taft-Hartely act did not contribute to the economic boom. Taft Hartley act was a federal law that restricted the activities and powers of labor unions.
