Emergence of Monotheistic religion
Well, fear is created when there is a threat. WW2 Had just ended, so of course America did not want any other nation to become more powerful than them, for the idea that it would end up being like Germany. Americans also wanted to protect democracy, so communism was a major threat to the USA and it's beliefs. Naturally, America wanted to prove dominance to the USSR, thus the beginning of the cold war.
That is because the Spaniards controlled the seas.
The two crops are olives and grapes. Olives were made into olive oil and grapes into wine
It was formed after World War 2 with the mission statement of creating global wide peace instead of war .