It was. The statue of Zeus at Olympia, carved out by the sculptor named Phidias in around 435 BC, was a majestic statue and was considered to be one of the wonders of the ancient world. It raised awe and made peopel forget their earthly troubles, as one Greek orator noted. Sadly, there are no remains of this statue to be found anymore.
At the end of the French and Indian War the British government signed treaties with the Indians in the Ohio territory to restrict the American colonists from moving into there land. The American colonists ignored this British treaty, and started settling in the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee areas. The British government, unlike the American government in the following century (which very seldom honored the treaties they signed with the Western tribes), tried to honor their treaties with he Indians and keep the Americans out. This brought the Americans and British into confrontation and was one of the main factors that led to the Revolution.
The Civil War expenses made the United States (US) became much more reliant on money in the late 1800s than in previous times. The need for money in funding the war paved the way for US to begin implementing income tax during 1862.
