Rome was initially a city-state with about 50 square miles of territory to sustain itself. With small farms, the citizens could not split them up between their sons and so sought extra land for them. The surrounding city-states were bent on the same need, so they clashed, with Romme losing some, but on average winning most fights. As winners they took land and expanded.
<span>This expansion created more strife, and expansion, leading to dominance of Italy. As a rising power, cities in southern Gaul (France), Spain and Sicily sought Rome's assistance, and as a land power it allied itself with Carthage, a sea power. This arrangement came to an end when Rome supported Greek cities in Sicily against Carthaginian encroachment. A win in the First Punic (Carthaginian) War put the Romans on the path to empire, which was consilidated with the extirmination of Carthage in the Third Punic War in 146 BCE. At this stage Rome dominated the Western Mediterranean. </span>
In colonial America, Africans "contributed" to society by being a source of income for people who bought and sold them into slavery. They also contributed by being laborers in the southern plantations.
Women contributed to the society by being a house wives --meaning they took care of the house-- as well as cooking meals for the family and taking care of the children.
Native Americans, in the earlier days, contributed by trading with settlers and teaching them how to do things in their environment.
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The correct answer is agreeing not to end the slave trade for at least 20 years.
In order to compromise on the issue, individuals from the north and south had to find a middle ground in terms of the slave trade. This is why the slave trade would be banned as of 1808. When they made this agreement in 1788, this satisfied both parties as the northerners wanted to stop this inhumane exchange of people while southerners the chance to gain more labor for their plantations.
The Paris Peace Conference<span> and the Treaty of Versailles. The </span>Paris Peace Conference<span> convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside </span>Paris<span>. ... Negotiations at the </span>Paris Peace Conference<span> were complicated. The United Kingdom,</span>France<span>, and Italy fought together as the Allied Powers during the First World War.</span>