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Originally Posted by Red October1984
What does Early-20th Century Racing have to do with pre-1900 history?
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Well, actually, mentioning Hitler leads directly back to WW2, and WW2 was a direct result of WW1, which was a direct result of all the different land-grabs and wars of the 1800s, which were due to a reshuffling of the power bases formed when city-states finally developed into full-fledged nation-states in the 1400s, which came from the small city-state concept that finally developed out of the feudal system of the middle-ages, which formed after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which started developing when the original Roman city-state developed into the Republic and Carthage decide Rome had gotten too big for their britches.
So you see, World War 2 can be indirectly traced all the way back to Rome.
And that's just Europe.