Mostly farming, lumbering, fishing, trading,etc. This required cheap labor, or slaves. They were required for the heavy work to be done quickly by demand.
When President Truman took a hard line against striking workers in the years immediately following World War II, he:
"had little understanding of the plight of laborers in the post-war years."
During the first months of his administration, he became involved in a struggle between coal miners and railroad workers. It took several meetings, and fierce arguments, to get them to agree, and end the strike.
As far as I now, Marcus Perpena (the consul of 92 BC) was said to have lived to 98. I found this on a website called Quora. (not trying to advertise)
Hope this helped!
Simply put, this was an uprising caused by a Chinese secret organization to go against the spread of Japanese influence. This event in history proves to be unsuccessful. It occurred in 1898 and lasted til 1900.
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The protestant reformation divided western Christianity though it has been divided before
