A plague of insects over all of Egypt
changing the water to blood
darkness over Egypt except for the land of Goshen
making his hand leprous and whole again
death of all of the firstborn in Egypt who didn't have the sign in their doorway
changing his rod to a serpent and back to his rod
The Founding Fathers included the Bill of Rights in the hopes of protecting civil liberties of American citizens against the potential tyranny of the national government. Fearing a tyrannical system whereby the central government would have absolute control the Founding Fathers sought to institutionalize preventative measures such as the Bill of Rights to prevent this.
The main idea of the quote is that the Soviets are tightening their contol over Cnetral and Eastern Europe. The other sentences complete that idea by letting us know what they are doing with Central and Eastern Europe.
The thing that led to many civil wars in Rome was because of land expansion. Rome was building up their empire by expanding the empire and getting more land, but it was not so easy to get land because there were already other Empire's that had it. In order for Rome to claim more land and expand their empire, they had to go into war for the land. For example, Rome went into what is called the "Punic Wars" against the Carthage Empire for land, and Rome won the wars. Another war was against each other, the cause of the civil war against Romans was because of power, and Romans wanted power over each other so they could have the land that they fought for.
