Centralized power: all their power went up efficiently and bureaucratically (although that may seem like an oxymoron) to one small group of people. In one case, the Caesar and the Senate (which still had a role during the Pax Romana); in the second case, the Pope and his Cardinals.
The un-employment rate in the us during 1934 was 21.7% and The further weather drought problems in the US Midwest continued and some 35 million acres of farmland were utterly destroyed and a further 225 million acres were in danger.
