The egyptians:
used trepanning to cure illness and disease
made a connection between dirt and disease
documented medical procedures to create the first medical textbooks
improved sanitation by building aqueducts

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.

honestly i love the walking dead, mainly the quotes. “well, pardon me young man, excuse the [insert bad word here] out of my gosh darn french, but did you just threaten me? ” sksk (of course it's not the exact words)