Great Britain was fully industrialized with it's cities having smoke coming out of it's factories from as far as your eyes can see and making materials and products that were traded almost all over the world. Unlike Britain, Russia was the complete opposite. Russia was a mostly had agricultual economy with a serfdom system that was more than 200 years old, having little to no factories and it's products, materials, etc coming from industrialized countries like Britain, France and the various German states at the time.
At the hands of Alexander the Great is the easiest way to say it, but it took a severe decline after the rise of Christianity
Because the more you spread out the power, the less one person has. Therefore, the more people that have power, the tyrant will have less power.
The first great american (modernist composer of the twentieth century was <u>Charles Ives</u>. He graduated from Yale and some of this work are: <span><span>"Robert Browning" Overture , </span>Violin Sonata No. 2 , Violin Sonata No. 3 </span>