Do you think the position of the Catholic Church in Western Europe would have remained unchallenged if the pope had not decided to sell indulgences?

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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islam spread slowly through much of africa through trade and preaching.