Interacting groups shared skills and ideas that improved farming practices
Germany was expected to pay reparations after WWI. War damaged their country, and left it in pieces. They had very little money to rebuild their buildings and roads because of the reparations.
If it were me, I would own up to it and turn myself in. I would feel horrible to ruin someone else’s life for something I did.
It is based on the population of the state
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