It sounds like every group of the rulers that have ever existed. Politics is about reforming policy
The answer is false <span>The European ships that brought the crusaders to the Middle East returned to Europe with rugs, jewelry, glass and spices. Demand for these items grew in Europe. Since trade was revived towns and cities grew and prospered.</span><span />
Cyrus the Great of Persia who founded the Achaemenid Empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the early Near East which expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of the Southwest Asia, much of Central Asia and Caucasus. Under his successors, the empire stretched from parts of Balkans and Thrace-Macedonia in the west to the Indus Valley in the East.
<span>Cyrus the Great had created the largest empire the world had ever seen.
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They were a strength to the Union. They carried soldiers and supplies to the battlefront much quicker, from a few months' march to a week. Having the supplies quicker to the battleground gave the Union the advantage over the Confederates, since the Union could recover much faster from any loss.