The development of Florence was due to its strategic location, being a meeting point of several cultures and having adequate access to the sea. The specificity of the region, the cosmopolitan character of the place and the richness of commerce promoted an intense artistic and cultural flourishing. The work of Machiavelli, in this sense, fits in this historical space, since it fosters an ode to civil government.
Britain was the first Army to develop and use tanks in WWI.
Barbarous,destructive,vandal,offensive, and disparaging
The Jungle brought light to the harsh reality of the working and food conditions. The book helped the passage of many Federal food safety laws.
It affected them immeasurably because it enabled them to trade this surplus of food for things that they might need from other countries and thus get other pieces of technology or knowledge or anything similar. They could improve their state that way and that's how development of civilizations began.