They concentrated on industrial development. To achieve this, the Japanese built many
industries such as shipyards, iron works and smelters to develop their infrastructure. This is to catch with contemporary societies
in the West. Modernization not only
enabled Japan to have equal status with Western powers but also allowed her to
keep her independence.
Individuals began more private businesses and governments stopped supporting joint-stock companies
The unions control of the Mississippi river hurt Confederacy's ability to maintain union of its states.
For the Confederacy, control of the lower Mississippi River was vital to the union of its states. The portion of Louisiana west of the river plus Texas and Arkansas formed the Transmississippi which held manpower and materiel that the rest of the southern military machine needed.
Thanks to the navigation and improvement of ships, the people of the Hellenistic world had the ability to trade with other countries, something that gave them a great maritime economy and new possibilities to expand their own cities, filling the resources and materials, to put an end to the Bronze Age and make the State Cities a common way of living for the people of ancient Greece. This development of commerce and navigation made it possible for cities such as Crete to have an accelerated hubanization, since they changed the agricultural way of life by a trade-based economy, and were influenced by other countries, in addition to the new riches that they they could get.
