Jim Crow was not a real person but a depiction of African American people.
They enforced segregation.
An example is segregated schooling.
They were allowed as long as they were separate but equal
Lots of civil wars and the invasions of barbarians like the huns and other tribes brought down the empire since the senator could not get along and refused to fix the problem.
the scientific revolution lead to new machines and ways of doing things which would, in a way that is self-explanatory, lead to the industrial revolution.