Civilization is the establishment of culture and a system of government in a society. And due to such privilege the society enjoys it thrives and grow larger and there would be a population growth and also poverty would be present and thus slums are created due to such growth but the system didn't change to cope up with the change happening.
The Reconstruction amendments were important in implementing the Reconstruction of the American South after the war. Their proponents saw them as transforming the United States from a country that was (in Abraham Lincoln's words) "half slave and half free" to one in which the constitutionally guaranteed "blessings of liberty" would be extended to the entire populace, including the former slaves and their descendants.
Jamestown and Plymouth were two of the colonies that English immigrants settled into when they left England mostly because of Religious freedom.
The answer is the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire conquered the Byzantine Empire and its capital, Constantinople, in 1453 CE. Since then, the Ottoman Empire remained as a strong power and its sovereignty spanned from the Balkans and Anatolia to the Middle East and all of North-Africa. Since it was an Islamic empire, it influenced strongly in the culture and politics of the Middle East. This empire collapsed with the end of the World War I in 1919, and most of its former territories were divided by the British and the French or formed new nation-states. The Republic of Turkey is the direct heir state of the Ottoman Empire.
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