The middle ages in Europe were pretty terrible. Politically, kings ruled directly over groups of people, or over whole countries. The kings answered to the Pope generally. Economically, the kings and their nobles owned most of the profits of hard labor, while the townspeople after were treated to low wages. A sizable gap between classes was seen economically, and there was little room for changes in a persons economic class. Socially, the structure went like this: beggars and thieves, serfs (or non land owning peasants), knights, nobles and bishops, kings, the Pope.
the Great Compromise set up a bicameral legislature in which the House of Representatives had representation proportional to a states population and the Senate had equal representation (2 senators per state) regardless of state population
<span>Seven Hundred Billion dollars were allocated to the troubled asset relief program in 2008. The goal was to buy bad investments away from financial institutions in order to strengthen the financial sector.</span>
