The Zimmerman telegram was a message sent by Germany to MEXICO to cripple a few of their states in 1917 during the first world war. The transmission never reached mexico however and was intercepted by British inelegance.
The legal heritage of Rome was preserved in The Body of Civil Law, compiled under order of <span>Justinian.</span>
They failed because nobody cared about the railroad. The railroad had to be a government project with leases to companies but the government was too much involved in the slavery issue that it didn't have time to deal with railroads. That's why railroads boomed after the civil war ended.
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