Lapita culture or the prehistoric Pacific ocean people have developed skills in building crafts to sail the seas.
Their greatest obstacle are the miles of water separating islands. In order to reach different land masses, they have develop skills to sail and navigate the seas.
<span>Napoleon's army was badly outnumbered, his best men were lost in his devastating invasion of Russia.</span>
It was one of the first democratic governments in recorded history. Letting people vote on leaders was revolutionary at the time and did lead to things like the roman republic, the american revolution, and the french revolution. It lead to a lot of time being spent on the tragedy of being human or self aware. Which of course lead to things like maybe i deserve to have a say in the government.
Later when the Romans took over they looked at all the Greeks stuff and thought huh? maybe this is a good idea. And the rest of course is history.
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