A good starting point would be describing the Phoenicians. Saying who they were, when they rose and when they fell, etc. Then end the paragraph with "This is how this magnificent culture influenced Rome" then start your essay on how they influenced it with "The first way the Phoenicians influenced Rome is..."
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After the Civil War, Kansas was advertised as a good place for African Americans to settle. The 1859 Kansas Constitution opened the state to all settlers regardless of their ethnic or racial background. In the 1870 census blacks made up 4.6 percent of the state's population.
D is the correct answer
Rome was the first to have a government style called a Republic that is not quite Democracy but was very similar and gave the basis for many of the government styles we have today such as the United States government. Most modern countries are democratic republics such as the United States. There was an era in Roman time that is the first example of the Republic style of government we know as normal today.