New technologies like steam engines, railroads, and telegraphs made for communication and transportation easier. The ability to source and transport materials across the country with ease turned many local businesses into national companies.
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Because of a debt crisis among the citizenry and opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades and the result was that the rebellion was crushed.
The world became connected and the Hellenistic Period began. The geography expanded including Egypt, Greece, Persia, and a part of northern India. Hope that answers it.
Cities couldn't thrive in the harsh winter of New England but villages could work together to protect each other against it.
