I discovered that a key moment in Roman history was a very little-discussed raid by pirates on the Port of Rome at Ostia.
Rome was at that point the dominant world superpower, and there was no state in the world that would ever have dared to attack Rome. But the Romans were attacked by a group of stateless desperados who set fire to the Port. The flames may well have been visible in Rome itself. And this sent a shockwave through Rome, because if pirates could strike that close to the imperial capital, nowhere was safe.
And in this panicky atmosphere - an atmosphere of panic, I might say, which was deliberately whipped up by ambitious politicians - the Roman people took a series of fatal steps, surrendering some of their liberties and some of their control over their government. And in doing so, they sewed the seeds of the destruction of their own democracy.
And the more I looked at that event, the more it seemed familiar to me and the parallel with 9/11 - and in particular the response to it.
Guatemala
Guatemala is by far the most populous, almost doubling the population of 2nd-ranked Honduras.
E: both B and D. The automobile and the mass assembly line
<em>Industrialization in Great Britain began with the global 'Industrial revolution', a pioneer. Industrialization in Russia was the last in Europe, a laggard.
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<u>Great Britain’s industrialization was driven by individual citizens, while Russia’s was guided by the government. </u>
<span>Violence and destruction of Jewish businesses was deemed acceptable in pre-war Germany because the German people D) Wanted a scapegoat for economic </span>problems.<span />
