While it was true that western lands were somewhat more fertile than the now-depleted lands of the East, many of the pioneers were attracted to the frontier in order to speculate in land, i.e. to purchase large quantities of cheap government land and to sell it at a profit to later comers
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Replaced at the height of his power, Richard had been compromised by the narrowness of his own power base and his personal inability to live up to the image that he created for the crown. He failed because he misread the signs around him, and was unable to raise the monarchy as an institution with himself at its head.
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This is false.
The city -state of Asshur at the beginning of the second millennium BC, built itself an army necessary to defend itself from its neighbors. Defensive quickly turned to offensive out of greed.
By 1100 BC, the Assyrian forces had advanced from the Mediterranean sea in the west to the Persian gulf in the south . At its height, their territory spanned an immense area including Egypt , the Iranian plateau, the Arab peninsula and even the mountains of the Caucus.
WW2 set the economy into a big progression era after the the Great Drepression. Companies were hiring worker and producing goods to support the soldiers. When the soldiers returned from war, the women left the factories and started families. This opened jobs for the returning soldiers and launched a big population boom “the baby boom” which ultimately resulted in more consumerism.
