Shorts Story about Rags to riches?

Sparta faces threats from without and within the city-state who posed these threats.

What does it mean in the declaration of independence for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world

Before the invention of the loom in 1785, textile manufacturing was: a) regulated under the guild system. b) performed by children working in factories. c) produced in rural cottages under a putting-out system. d) conducted by british colonists overseas.