<span>The
walls of the Colosseum were crumbling. The
once-magnificent stadium housed scores of filthy taverns. Thieves lurked in the ancient baths. On Capitoline
Hill, the old center of Roman government, vines grew over the benches of the senators. One
humanist lamented that the Roman Forum once the heart of
an empire, had turned into “a neglected desert here the home of pigs and wild deer, and there a vegetable garden.” </span>
The common law of England was largely created in the period after the Norman Conquest of 1066
They seceded from the union because they thought he would abolish slavery
