What powered the greatest consumer boom the world has ever seen?

The discovery of oil

Explanation:

There are numerous theories about the emergence of oil, but the most accepted is that it came from the organic remains of animals and plants deposited at the bottom of lakes and seas undergoing chemical transformations over thousands of years.

The first oil well was discovered in the United States - Pennsylvania - in the year 1859. It was found in a shallow (21m) region. However, it was in 1900 that oil peaked causing the great consumer boom the world has ever seen.

In 1900 the oil became very valuable and came to be called "Black Gold". In addition to being used as fuel, various products are derived from petroleum such as paraffin, natural gas, LPG, asphalt products, petrochemical naphtha, kerosene, solvents, fuel oils, lubricating oils, diesel oil and aviation fuel.

All of this influenced the production of preducts and consumption by them became increasingly large.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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explanation:

not everyone in america is free. it is has always been a unequal society. and yet people come in swarms, in search of better lives. some are brought as children, unaware, unknowing. some arrive and just don’t leave. they build lives, pay taxes, raise families. some enter illegally, fleeing persecution in their home country.

there are many reasons why human beings are so attracted to america, despite its history of bitterness towards immigrants.

there are almost two million immigrants brought to the us when they were children. president donald trump and his collaborators are determined to rid the us of as many undocumented immigrants as they can, and stop others from coming because none of their ancestors were immigrants.

america has so many things and yet it lacks the one thing that humanity needs to fully thrive. and so this country will not be at peace in itself until it resolves the pain at the heart of slavery, attacking immigrants, and crumble the rights of those with less power.