On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:39:37 -0400, Gary R Coffman
wrote:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:54:03 -0000, Akston wrote:
And if anyone thinks that economic considerations did not play a
major role in the U.S.A.s recent foreign adventuring, I have some
nice beachfront property in Nevada to sell you.

It is worth noting that Rome was not a great manufacturing
power, but they did rule the known world. That position brought
the citizens of Rome great wealth by controlling the flow of
natural resources and the delivery of goods and services.


Were there any countries that were great manufacturing powers at that
point in history?



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