In the 1400s, European explorers benefited from "improvements in map-making skills," since these allowed for greater location accuracy. GPS and steam ships would not be invented for quite some time.
Stable acting government and industry, in which the government protects and provides basic support and a just judicial system with practical set of laws, and the industry is not extremely restricted; allowed to flourished and better the economy of a society. These two elements of a civil society determine whether or not a country is strong as much as prosperous.
<span>Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines all became U.S. possessions as a result of the "Spanish-American War", since these were all help previously by the Spanish. </span>
