I think it was bands of thieves
If you are talking about President Ronald Reagan, he claims they sought to minimize the size of government.
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The main reason why Christianity spread in the Byzantine Empire is that decades prior to the emergence of the Empire, Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, with they Edict of Milan, which he decreed in 313 AD.
We must remember that the Byzantine Empire is simply the Eastern Roman Empire, and when the Middle Ages started, the Byzantine Empire held land that had been christianizing for a over a century. Only a few areas of the Empire had to christianized in the Middle Ages, essentially areas at the edges of the Empire.
The Articles of Confederation created an ineffective government system in the United States.
The most likely reason that the United Kingdom has the largest shipping losses is that of the fact that the United Kingdom had the largest navy and because of this, the aforementioned fact also led to the increase in losses of the shipping of the United Kingdom.