True, the revolutions of the 1848 springtime of people succeeded.
A polis controlled itself either by a king democracy
A colony did not it was ruled by another city
War
War times make people very patriotic or nationalistic.
I don't think it should be taken at face value because those ways could be the main ways to earn money, but it could probably be the least reliable or successful ways. This sentence could just be a lie taken literaly in which has a hidden meaning. This could be a meaning that you might not get, in which will leave you ripped off.
