My belief may be different from yours...
I am a Christian, for me, when I pass if I really truly believe that Jesus died for me on the cross I will go to heaven. I believe in God the Father, Jesus the sun, and the holy spirit. This might not be your perception of God or heaven, but it is to me.
A civil war...between the Greeks :)
To have laws and enfocement to enforce those laws and keep peace among citizens
The Battle of Gettysburg was pretty much when people realized the South was going to lose.
The characterization of mercantilism as a "set of practices" demonstrates the absence of a preconceived plan for the economic policy of European countries that, between the 16th and 18th centuries, disputed slices of American territory to keep them in the condition of colonies. During this period, in Europe, the wealth available in the world was thought of as something that could not be expanded, and therefore the absolutist states strove to secure for themselves as much of this supposedly limited wealth as possible. Gold and silver, circulating in the form of coins or locked in the coffers of kings were understood as their translation, hence the true search fever of the so-called metals