<span>It enabled
the travel goods faster by transporting them from New York City to the Great
Lakes in the U.S. without the need of carrying watercraft over land or around
to avoid obstacles. It decrease transportation costs and led to a
rise in population in New York and led to more settlements in the West</span>
The statement which is not true is:
A. The Phoenician civilization lived in the mountains of Greece.
Explanation:
The Phoenicians were an ancient civilization composed of city-states that lived in the Eastern Mediterranean, in what today is Lebanon, Southern Syria and Northern Israel. The Phoenicians' location in the Mediterranean and their advanced skills as maritime people and as shipbuilders allowed them to trade with other civilizations along the Mediterranean including Greece and they became a wealthy civilization. The Phoenicians are mostly famous for their tyrian purple dye that was used to dress the royal class, they are also famous for the creation of the alphabet.
First was the Roman Republic, then came the Roman Empire. In the 4th century BCE, the Roman Republic turned to imperialism. After losing a significant battle with the Gauls, a Celtic people, the Romans concluded that in order to sustain safety, they would have to expand their territory so the frontiers would be a good distance from the capital, Rome. They successfully fought a series of wars with other Italian city-states as well as the Carthaginians, achieving their goal. Warfare gave excessive power to the military leaders, weakening the influence of the Senate and thus the democracy became undermined. That is how it was transformed to a vast empire.
It maintains the oral tradition of communities.
