Ancient Greece and ancient Rome
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I’m 99% sure it’s bought his own printing press
At the peak of the Roman Empire's reach, around A.D. 117, the Empire stretched as far north as modern Scotland, stretched down through Europe east into Asia as far as the border between modern day Iraq and Iran, with its southern reaches extending into northern Africa.
In the United States, it was mostly a rise in immigration that led to the call for the prohibition of alcohol, since many people believed that it was making people violent and unappealing. Women were at the forefront of this movement, which succeeded in prohibiting alcohol but failed at actually enforcing this ban, since people continued to drink anyway.
The colonies were already in debt, because they had not trade, were in debt, and had a bad financial system working for their economy.
