The ancient people were moving west.
The bridge that you are referring to was called the Bering land bridge which is now the Bering Strait. During the Ice age, though this area was covered in ice which made the sea levels drop and emerged the land bridge, the land bridge was covered with grasses and low shrubs which provided food for the mammoth, horses, caribou, and bison. It is believed that the ancient people followed these grazing animals from beringia (which is now SIberia) and into America, they are believed to be the first inhabitants of America. Over time the weather got warmer and the glaciers started melting and the bridge started disappearing into what we now call the Bering strait this all happened about 11,600 years ago
It means that the land and money are mostly in the hands of a small population: of the rich (which can, but don't have to also have the political power).
This means that the wealth is not evenly distributed, that is, all people have the same amount, but that some people have a lot more than others.
Greek influence. Roman literature owes a debt to the Greeks, more specifically Athens. This indebtedness to Greece was even recognized by the writers themselves. Horace, one of the poets of the Golden Age of Roman literature wrote that Greece introduced the arts "into a backward Latium."
They were facing threats from German Vikings
-Pope Urban II
-Saladin
-Richard the Lionheart
-Usamah bin Mundidh
-Eliezer ben Nathan