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Ancient Egypt was incredibly lucky, but it used that luck masterfully.
It was Herodotus who said:
“Egypt is the gift of the Nile",
Every year in Egypt, the Nile overflows and creates a rich valley of black soil that is abundantly fertile. This fertility was central to Egyptian civilization.
In Dredd Scott, the Supreme Court had a very particular issue to consider: that of whether or not an African American had standing to sue in federal court.
The Supreme Court ultimately decided that while Scott was a citizen of a free state, he was not a US citizen and was not entitled to standing as a US citizen.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu's dynasty of shoguns presided over 250 years of peace and prosperity in Japan, including the rise of a new merchant class and increasing urbanization. To guard against external influence, they also worked to close off Japanese society from Westernizing influences, particularly Christianity.
New Netherlands (area around New York & New Jersey). The settlement that eventually became New York was called New Amsterdam.
