The geography influenced the economic development of New York, Boston, and Charleston, because they were all ports and this helped with trade (both import and export). There were many ships coming in and coming out and also due to this, many communities started settling there and towns started booming due to the growing amount of people.
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Early in his reign, he was very brutal and felt quite guilty of how he behaved. He became a Buddhist, and practiced ahimsa (not hurting other living things).
It would have to be the lives lost, and the many other lives shattered by amputations and lost minds. Casualty figures have been revised upward. The overall population was about 31,000,000, not including about 4 million slaves. Of that total, half were women, which leaves some 15,000,000 men. There couldn't have been more than 5 million adult males. Out of those, some 750,000 died from wounds or disease, with over 1,000,000 afflicted (amputations, etc.) This represented almost 20% of the adult male population, and it was worse for the South (in proportion).
<span>The Battle of Gettysburg killed over 50,000 men in three days. Three years of the Korean war resulted in about 53,000 American dead. Ten years of the Vietnam War also resulted in about 53,000 dead. The Civil War was a holocaust.</span>
The system of the old regime is when France had the feudal system, the 1st Estate, the 2nd Estate, and the 3rd Estate. During the old regime, there was no social mobility amongst the Estates. The King also had absolute power while the three estates had no political power. The 1st Estate were the clergy who were rich and owned a lot of land. The 2nd Estate were the nobles, who also had a lot of land and were rich. The 3rd Estate were the peasants and the commoners, who were poor and had very little land.
