They didnt invent the astrolabe!
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I believe that the Atlantic slave trade contributed to conditions that eventually led to the Haitian revolution by resulting in African slaves making up the vast majority of St Domingue's population thus giving them strength in numbers to overthrow a slave system and form their own sovereign government.
The last president of the U.S. to receive an actual formal declaration of war from congress was Franklin Roosevelt. It was for World War 2.
The answer is that they were the expression of the consumerist culture of the period.
In the 1920s Ford dominated the automobile industry with its consumerist policies and thinking. Movies were also seen as products at the time by the studios that held the power in the movie business. That is why both of them were the reflections of the consumerist culture of the 1920s.
