Both groups thought they could get rich and powerful by exploiting ignorance of middle America. Oh, that's not an answer. Truth!
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Ecumene is a term used by geographers to mean inhabited land. It generally refers to land where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose.
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The ecumene (US) or oecumene (UK; Greek: οἰκουμένη, oikouménē, lit. "inhabited") was an ancient Greek term for the known, the inhabited, or the habitable world. Under the Roman Empire, it came to refer to civilization as well as the secular and religious imperial administration. In present usage, it is most often used in the context of "ecumenical" and describes the Christian Church as a unified whole, or the unified modern world civilization. It is also used in cartography to describe a type of world map (mappa mundi) used in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cities to urbanization in neighboring areas. It may be done because the neighboring urban areas seek municipal services or because a city seeks control over its suburbs or neighboring unincorporated areas.
The main big one would be disease and infections. Trench fever, trench foot and trench mouth were common diseases people got when involved in trench warfare. Trench foot happens when the feet are exposed for long periods of time to cold water and mud. Trench fever is caused when body ice transfers from one place to another. Overcrowding conditions make this prone to happen. It causes headaches, sore muscles, skin lesions on the chest and backs as well as fever.
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