The Byzantine Empire influenced many cultures, primarily due to its role in shaping Christian Orthodoxy. The modern-day Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian church in the world. Orthodoxy is central to the history and societies of Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia, and other countries.
Byzantine architecture, particularly in religious buildings, can be found in diverse regions from Egypt to Russia. During the Byzantine Renaissance—from 867 to 1056—art and literature flourished. Artists adopted a naturalistic style and complex techniques from ancient Greek and Roman art and mixed them with Christian themes. Byzantine art from this period had a strong influence on the later painters of the Italian Renaissance.
hieroglyphics and papyrus helped grow the the civilization in Egypt because it was one of the first forms of a language and could easy be made to make a hieroglyph you needed a surface and paint. on the other hand papyrus made it possible to make writing that could be delivered by one man or stored in a place not written on a wall. it was the early form of paper. much easier to carry imagine trying to deliver a giant rock with writing just not gonna happen.
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani.
They believedthat the power have to tax was necessary to provide the national defense and to repay debts to other nations. Anti-Federalists opposed the power, but they fearing it could allow the central government to rule the people and the states by imposing unfair and repressive taxes,