Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From this international attitude arose such organizations as UNESCO and the Non-Aligned Nations Conferences, amid various calls for a "New World Economic Order." This new order would supposedly redress the imbalance of wealth between the developed industrial nations and the Lesser Developed Countries (LDC's), but has instead led to the present tenuous situation...
...they initially had almost nothing to buy. Although in the last few years increasing expenditures and decreasing revenues have narrowed this surplus (in some OPEC cases eliminating and even reversing it, as in Venezuela and Nigeria), at first the leaders of Arab nations had little to do with their wealth other than send it right back to Western banks...
...foot of spectacular Tmolus mountain, birthplace of the wine god Bacchus. Sardis once served as the capital of the great Lydian Fmpire. Surrounded by the abundant agricultural and grazing land which was the heartland of Lydia. Sardis symbolized luxury, sophistication, and sumptuous wealth...
...Pactolus River brought gold dust from the mountains into the center of the city, where King Croesus, whose names is still associated with great riches, had it removed and turned into coins--the first known instance of coinage in the Western world Croesus's wealth and power rivalled even that of the Phrygian King Midas, his neighbor to the north, who, as the legend goes, ridded himself of his "golden touch" by bathing in the same stream...
Following the Persian conquest, Sardis became the Western capital of the Persian Empire, the center of command for the Greek cities along the Lonian coast. The city's wealth and importance was maintained because of its strategic location on the royal road to Susa, a corridor of exchange between East and West. Xerxes mustered his armies there intent on marching into Greece...