Justinian's Code-- set of laws and punishments coinciding with the laws.
Justinian created a code of laws to bring order to the Byzantine Empire. The laws created by Justinian created a set of universal laws which acted as national laws which had ultimate power over the people in Justinian's empire. Each of the laws corresponded with a punishment which also set up a comprehensive court system along with the laws. This legal system was copied and replicated in many European governments as well as the US system.
Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America's southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
