The middle ages in Europe were pretty terrible. Politically, kings ruled directly over groups of people, or over whole countries. The kings answered to the Pope generally. Economically, the kings and their nobles owned most of the profits of hard labor, while the townspeople after were treated to low wages. A sizable gap between classes was seen economically, and there was little room for changes in a persons economic class. Socially, the structure went like this: beggars and thieves, serfs (or non land owning peasants), knights, nobles and bishops, kings, the Pope.
The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile", since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the Nile and the resulting depositing of the fertile silt. The Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, and there is a delta at the mouth.
Not only did it renew the morale of the American public, but it convinced potential foreign partners, such as France, that American could win the war<span>, and that it might be in their best interests to send aid.</span>
To continue expanding its empire ,Japan needed large supplies of OIL.
