Thriving cities, wealthy merchant class, classical heritage of Greek and Rome.
The South had always been less enthusiastic about the railroad industry than the North; its citizens preferred an agrarian living and left the mechanical jobs to men from the Northern states. The railroads existed, they believed, solely to get cotton to the ports.
Explanation:
The Pharaoh was at the top of Egyptian Society.
The city of Nanjing was extremely vulnerable to Japanese attack because the Chinese armed forces had been removed from the city.
In the first place, I charge President Roosevelt with being a hypocrite, the most consummate that ever occupied the executive seat of the nation. His profession of pure politics is false, his boasted moral courage the bluff of a bully and his “square deal” a delusion and a sham.