Geography had a profound impact upon Ancient Greece. The deserts brought heat, the coastline helped with trade, and the oases brought grass & water. The deserts, coastline, and oases of Arabia helped shape the Arab way of life.
Among those to voice displeasure with the policies of General James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's settlement, the Malcontents issued the most vehement complaints.
The Kansas Nebraska Act affected the border states because the Kansas Nebraska Act was set in motion a plan that was supposed to decide the Kansas question through a peaceful democratic process.
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