The minerals and elements in the soil.
During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan...
used violence to prevent freed people from voting.
Quakers, Mennonites, Lutherans, Dutch Calvinists, and Presbyterians
The cultural contributions of the <em>Byzantine Empire</em> were:
-Their great system of defense which consisted of 700 km of huge beacons that ran the border of the empire and kept them aware of possible invasions.
-One of the most beautiful and biggest church they built "Haidi Sophia".
-Very good hydraulic engineering techniques.
-They helped to preserve the Greek philosophy, ethics, culture, and language.
