Please, I do not understand the question
There was a lot of opposition to black people leaving the south because the white planter class did not want to lose their cheap labor if the blacks migrated westwards. They even went to the extent of closing the Mississippi River and intimidating to sink boats carrying the African Americans
Answer:
It placed high taxes on the empire’s declining population.
Explanation:
This is part of the reason that contributed greatly towards the fall of the Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire never factored in the fact that, the population is declining with the land outputs increasingly decreasing.
He overlooked all the signs but still went ahead to increase the taxes unlike the Western Roman Empire that would sometimes refund excess taxes to people or lower the taxes according to the economic situation.