The Silk Road trade allowed for diffusion of technologies to go throughout Eurasia. For instance, silk-making technology from China was able to diffuse and reach areas in Europe. Another example would be the religion of Buddhism. Buddhism originated in India and made its way to China along the Roads, and changed a bit along the way.
The Equal Pay Act led to a 40% increase in employment for women.
Slavery was implicitly recognised in the original Constitution in provisions such as Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, commonly known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which provided that three-fifths of each state's enslaved population (“other persons”) was to be added to its free population for the purposes of apportioning seats in the United States House of Representatives and direct taxes among the states.
<span>Town meetings are a type of municipal legislature where a group of local residents are able to get together and contribute to the creation of local laws and policies. Many people favor this type of legislature because it assures that the laws that are being passed are in the best interests of the local people rather than the benefit special interest groups.</span>