D it was made to make trade quicker and more efficient connecting the two bodies of water
The Spartans focused more on militaristic strength than on philosophical and intellectual pursuits.
They gave more respect to women than other Greek city states.
Their government was less democratic than other areas of Greece.
Marxism saw history as a series of class struggles.
In a third attempt to weaken the Israelites and resolve Pharaoh's irrational fear, the Egyptian king commands all his people (not just the Hebrew midwives) to kill all Hebrew baby boys by throwing them into the Nile River.
The Spanish Civil War started in July 1936 with the military coup leaded by General Franco, which started a rebellion against the democratically elected Republican goverment. Since the establishment of a Republic and the abolition of the monarchy in 1931, mostly left-wing parties and progressisf leaders had won the elections.
The most conservative sectors of the army followed the fascist general Franco who, during the war, received the support of Hitler and Mussolini, specially, of their aviation military units. The democratic European states refused to help the Spanish Republic and only the URSS contributed by sending some armament.
The war ended in 1939 with the victory of the fascists and the establishment of a military dictatorship that would last until the death of Franco, the dictator, in 1975.
