The correct answer for the given question above would be option D. The statement that best describes why Rome went to war with Carthage is because, Rome was concerned that Carthage wanted to extend its empire into Italy. Carthage and Rome had a bitter rivalry and had been in three major wars for control of the Western Mediterranean.
Here are a few reasons:
1. Bootlegging run rampant and people were imprisoned for illegally having alcohol in their possession.
2. People were not allowed to drink freely which led to the creation of speakeasies
3. People wanted the organized crime that went with bootlegging to end
"My enemies enemy is my friend"; this affected both WWII and the Cold War. Because of this, the U.S. supported a number of harsh dictatorships.
The middle class had more power, traveling was safe, etc.
The African states were in a very big mess after they gained independence. The reasons for that were numerous. In the same boundaries there multiple people from ethnic groups that traditionally had lot of tensions between them, different religions that were not fond of one another was also existing in the same territories, lot of leaders turned out to be dictators, and also lot of the people that turned out to run the countries did not had political experience.
All of that resulted in lot of violence, separatist movements, genocides, coups, civil wars, further partition of the countries. The ordinary people suffered the most, as always, living on terrible poverty and constantly being on alert because the safety was non-existent.
