That statement is false
There is some religious that practive celibacy, there is some religious groups that believe in individual communion with God, but all of them tend to specify the role that men and women have in their life. This tend to contribute in equality since it prevent a certain people pursuing their goals in life.
Mercantilism and barter are better described as historical economic systems, and in the past the governments and the kings/queens generally kept a closer control of the country, so let's not consider those options.
Now, we have: capitalism, communism, socialism.
Capitalism leaves the capital and the economic decisions in the hands of the private people, not the government. Socialism means a common possession of the means of production, but not by the govrenments, rather by the people, as is often seen as a milder form of communism.
Communism on the other hand is associated with authoritarian governments. Some example were the Soviet Union, and currently, North Korea and Cuba.
Some of the inventions that revolutionized American life in the late 1800s are:
- Telephone. <span>Alexander Graham Bell invented the “electric speech machine,” or telephone, in 1876 which revolutionized the way people speak and communicate to people.
-QWERTY. </span><span>The QWERTY is the most used keyboard nowadays. It was created by Christopher L. Shole in 1874. He is the one who introduced the QWERTY keyboard to the world.
- American Football. American Football is nowadays one of the biggest sport of the United States. The invention of it was credited to Walter Camp. The first professional game of football was held in 1892.
- Skyscraper. The first skyscraper, known as the 10-story Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney. </span>