The size of the country. the soviet union had immediate access to resources, the germans couldn’t stretch their resources as far as they had come. add on the cold, the germans had quite the hard time
In addition, diseases brought by Europeans raged throughout the New World where people had no resistance, killing tremendous numbers of natives. Columbus's voyages also led to negative effects in Africa. Eventually, Europeans who came to the Americas decided that they needed labor to work their American plantations.
Serfs were laborers who were bound to their lords property, so though they worked the land, the land still belonged to the lord that they worked for.
Excessive pride will always cause one to his downfall. This happened to Achilles. During the times when pride was ruling in his mind, the Greeks were destroyed and he was also punished. He lost the glory he wanted from the Greeks. Also, he lost a dear friend, Patroclus. Because of his great pride, he craved for vengeance which eventually led him to death.