The best way to describe Oceania's physical geography is that Oceania is isolated from the rest of the world.
The countries of Europe were divided between the west half of Europe (US aligned) and the east half (Soviet aligned/ruled). The dividing line was in Europe's center going north-south along the Elbe river in the north. All the bigger countries in Europe (Britain, France, three fourths of Germany, Italy, Spain) were on the west side with the US.
The US side was a free alliance of democracies. The Soviet side was an unfree group of taken over countries, held prisoner by the Russian Soviet Union with Soviet Russian puppet communist dictatorships as governments. Economically the west side was a mixture of free market, capitalism, and European socialism. The east Soviet side was communist with totalitarian command economies.
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Shays’ Rebellion further underlined to Washington and other American leaders the weakness of the Articles of Confederation. Although plans for a Constitutional Convention were already under way, the uprising in Massachusetts led to further calls for a stronger national government and influenced the ensuing debate in Philadelphia that led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution in the summer of 1787.
According to Edward J. Larson, author of “The Return of George Washington,” the rebellion “haunted Washington” and was “perhaps an essential, final straw” in pulling him out of retirement to serve as president of the Constitutional Convention. “Regardless of their cause, the commotions sufficiently shocked Washington to set him on the road to Philadelphia,” Larson writes.
The ancients Greeks were polytheistic — that is, they worshipped many gods. Their major gods and goddesses lived at the top of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, and myths described their lives and actions. In myths, gods often actively intervened in the day-to-day lives of humans. Myths were used to help explain the unknown and sometimes teach a lesson.
For example, Zeus, the king of the gods, carried his favorite weapon, the thunderbolt. When it rained and there was thunder and lightning, the ancient Greeks believed that Zeus was venting his anger.
Many stories about how the Greek gods behaved and interacted with humans are found in the works of Homer. He created two epic poems: the Iliad, which related the events of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, which detailed the travels of the hero Odysseus. These two poems were passed down orally over many generations.
