<span>Yes, we could certainly have a health crisis that blows the Black Death out of the water. What is needed is a virus that is airborne, has a fairly long gestation period and has a high fatality rate.</span>
The reason why people from many religious groups settled in the middle colonies was because they were able to freely practice their religion in these colonies without fear of being hunted down for their beliefs while in other colonies they could possibly have been persecuted.
While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union could be used to prop up nascent communist states in a similar way that the money from the Marshall Plan was attempting to rebuild western-style democracies.
It is the socratic method
