The rise of reform movements aimed at improving urban life
The Barbary pirates were seizing US ships for ransom. One time with two British frigates near bye. That forced a change in Jefferson and he realized he had to have a Navy. He order the Constitution class frigates and some smaller vessels. The start of the blue-water Navy.
Beirut, Lebanon was once known as the paris of the middle east
It might be because they did live peacfully u never know because u were not there when it happend.
