An extensive trading network, backed up by force, gives Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea. But in 433 Pericles overreaches himself, in a move which leads to a breach of his own Thirty Years Treaty.
Trading networks, backed up by force, gave Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea. Pericles overreaches himself in 433, in a move that leads to a breach of his own Thirty Years Treaty.
Steel. During the industrial revolution, steel had a major increase in production. A way to remember this is to remember the man Carnegie Steel who ran a monopoly that controlled the steel industry during the Industrial Revolution.
