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This story tells a tale of how a divided ant kingdom fell to a greater united one. In our world this situation has happened many times, especially during ancient times. It can also relate to today and modern times.
The ancient Gaulish tribes were never united and always fought against each other. For this reason the Roman Empire had conquered Gaul (without much hesitation). The ancient Greeks were divided as well. In particular the two cities of Athens and Sparta. Many attempts to unite these Greek cities had failed. For the few times they had united, they managed to defeat invaders like Persia and Macedon. But when the Romans came, each state decided that they weren’t going to unite again and perished.
In the second century AD king Pyrrhus of Epirus was the general who defended Greece from Rome. He tried out a new weapon never used by the Greeks before: Elephants. This weapon was sure to work as they had been brought from Syria, and trained by Syrians, who were famous for using elephants in wars. Unfortunately the elephants weren’t use to the Greeks and in battle, the elephants trampled over its own soldiers. This contributed greatly to the loss of the Greeks to the Romans.



Today the war against terrorism has broken friendships between the US and the Middle East. If they were to stop fighting, and work together, they could discover solutions to huge global problems. Like quickly spreading diseases and global warming. In this case, the US and Middle East can be the Greek cities, and Global problems can be the Romans.