It was right in the middle of the Bosporus, Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. So, all trade between North Africa, Asia and Europe, had to pass through the capital (Constantinople), causing the Byzantine Empire to become very wealthy due to taxes they charged between the trading.
The social class structures and poor harvests.
Ida B Wells used a strategy called"data
journalism" in her anti-lynching movement. She trekked through the south
keeping archives of all the lynchings that happened and the explanations for
them. She then put this together in her book "A Red Record: Tabulated
Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings
