Because the rise of merchants weakened the power of monarchs making the peasants leave their manors for towns where they could find work. Also, agriculture stopped being profitable bec merchants imported food so there was no more need for agriculture
The main reason why we know more about Hammurabi's Code than other early forms of law is because Hammurabi's Code was the first (or at least one of the first) codes of law to be permanently inscribed on stone instead of issued on paper or through word of mouth.
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In what ways did compromise play a critical role in the drafting of the Constitution? Big and small states could not agree on representation between the different sized states. Roger Sherman suggested the Great Compromise which offered a two-house Congress to satisfy both big and small states.
The United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers.
Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world.
