The European trade routes to the East changed from the land based system like the Silk Road into the sea based system that travels either westward or southward to east. This is because the lost of the trade routes in the land due to the conflict and wars forced the Europeans to create a new route through the sea and this is the time that theory the world is round is proven and is taken into consideration for making a new trade route.
Lusitania. British passenger ship. U boats. Soldiers killed wounded and missing
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States