<span>The one that is not a correct description is the third option: the culture of the Byzantine empire became less diverse. The empire was a melting pot of Grecian influences, Roman, Armenian, and a number of other cultures. When the Western Empire fell, it wasn't as if the plug had been pulled on this cosmopolitan nation.So the third option is not a reason for falling</span>
The correct answer is D.
Direct democracy is exercised when voters, instead of electing political representatives that would govern and conduct policymaking on their behalf, are directly involved and can choose to support those policies that they consider to be more appropiate. <u>Option D is the only situation in which the policy choice is directly made by citizens. </u>
<em>Options A, B or C cannot be correct because in all of them the decision-making is performed by a body or an institution constituted by representatives that have been elected by citizens: the Congress, the town hall or the President. </em>
Nowadays, most democracies in the world are representative democracies were citizens whose representatives through suffrage, in opposition to direct democracies.
The correct answer is D. Congress overrides a presidential veto of a law that establishes a new tax.
Explanation
The principle of checks and balances is a principle of government (constitutional) in which it is established that the branches of the public power (judicial, executive, and legislative) have the right and the duty to act to avoid actions of other branches to power is balanced between the three branches. According to the above, the correct answer is D. Congress overrides a presidential veto of a law that establishes a new tax because it illustrates a situation in which the branch of the legislature (Congress) avoids an action by the branch of the executive branch (president).
