It encourages international exchange by removing barriers to trade.
Early farmers slashed the bark off of trees and let them die because they wanted the soil underneath the tree to get more sun. They thought that if the soil had more sun, their crops would grow faster.
It looks like it ended somewhere in Italy so I would say Venice
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.