Immigration was the major factor
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
Catherine the Great was not actually Russian at all. She was born a Prussian (German) and married Peter the Great, who adored the Prussians. She was a German leader of the Russian throne after overthrowing her husband.
1: the act of declaring.
2. the first pleading in a common law action
The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BC[1] until the early first millennium AD. It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs. The Egyptians had no concept of a place-valued system such as the decimal system.[2] The hieratic form of numerals stressed an exact finite series notation, ciphered one to one onto the Egyptian alphabet.