The answer is the old kingdom, also known as the ancient world.
The term muckraker<span> was used in the </span>Progressive Era<span> to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines. In the US, the modern term is </span>investigative journalism<span> — it has different and more pejorative connotations in British English
</span><span>The muckrakers played a highly visible role during the Progressive Era period, 1890s–1920s</span>
Natural resources - Britain had large and accessible supplies of coal and iron - two of the most important raw materials used to produce the goods for the early Industrial Revolution. Also available was water power to fuel the new machines, harbors for its merchant ships, and rivers for inland transportation.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness
