Ancient towns were filled with life-size bronze and marble figures. Cities in the Roman Empire could have over a thousand such statues. Statues honored rulers and gods. Beautiful statues also made people proud of their city. But by 400 CE, the number of statues began to fall. By 700 CE, hardly any new statues were being built in the Roman world. The Last Statues of Antiquity project wanted to know why cities built statues for so long, and then slowly stopped building them. Historians collected and analyzed evidence for new statues being built from 250 to 650 CE. They wanted to find evidence for why so few statues were being made. Why did historians choose to study this topic?

They were interested in finding out which artists stopped building statues.
They wanted to understand why there was a decline in caring about cities.
They wanted to discover how so many statues were lost.
They wanted to learn why there was a decline in creating statues in ancient R

question 1

the reasons for the global discontent in the early 1900s were the following:

desire for independence   was the main fight of many territories which were still under the control of colonial powers. dissatisfaction with peace terms of wwi . the best example is the case of germany, that was forced by the peace treaties to pay very expensive war reparations to the winners of wwi. some time later, german leaders broke relations and stopped recognizing the authority of those who imposed sanctions on their country, counting with the support of the population that was suffering the important economic consequences of the payment of reparations. overproduction of consumer goods which led to hyperinflation scenarios and very week currencies and economies.

question 2

the reasons for the great depression were the following, and these led to wall street crash in october 1929 and caused the subsequent great recession period.

high personal debt, that ended up with many bankrupt investors. falling stock price as everybody was getting rid of the stocks, many because they could not meet the amounts of money required by the margins that backed their investments.

question 3

italy: led by the fascists and benito mussolini   and promised to restore the greatness of the roman empire. germany: led by adolph hitler and the nazi party and conducted anti-jewish riots in austriajapan: was controlled by aggressive military leaders and invaded countries for their resources

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