Wanting to limit British influence along their frontier, the French built a string of forts from Lake Erie towards the forks of the Ohio (present-day Pittsburgh). Because rivers were so important to transportation, the forks of the Ohio was a strategically important location, one that both nations wanted to control.
Article VII stipulated that nine states had to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect.
The type of city government where profesionally trained executies run the city in a neutral manner would be called a council-manager government. This type of government can sometimes be very useful, especially when things need to be done.
The culture of ancient Greece produced many accomplishments, such as art that remains among the world's finest, the first valid approaches to science, the first works of literature that remain in the canon of classics and significant contributions to mathematics.
