Their major gods and goddesses lived at the top of
Mount Olympus
the highest mountain in Greece, and myths described their lives and actions.
Answer:
approximately 14.6 million people
By 1986, shops on Canal Street were closed and windows were boarded up and colorfully painted. Just a decade earlier,
But by the mid-1980s, one in eight workers was unemployed in Louisiana, the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The cruelest impact was on families, as fathers left their children and wives.
One of the biggest hits fell on the small bayou communities that had thrived in the 1970s. In Morgan City, one in four were jobless.
As oil prices dropped – as low as $10 a barrel – some pessimists said Louisiana’s heyday as a prosperous and carefree supplier of energy was over forever. Even if prices rebounded, they said, the Gulf was running out of recoverable oil. But technology proved them wrong, as new deepwater drilling techniques allowed energy companies to find oil and gas in ways that would not have been imaginable just 25 years ago.
Spain
Spain held the lands south of Georgia, called Spanish Florida.
Florida was one of the first areas settled by the Spanish. The first permanent settlement for the Spanish was located in Florida--St. Augustine. The land was thought to contain the fountain of youth and was explored by early Spanish settlers but never became the center of their colony.
