<span>The purpose of building the Suez Canal was to allow ships to travel between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, which would increase trade between the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.</span>
They were expressions of religious beliefs
Finally, and most controversially, a Fugitive Slave<span> Law</span>was<span> passed, requiring northerners to return runaway</span>slaves<span> to their owners under penalty of law. The</span>Compromise of 1850<span> overturned the Missouri</span>Compromise<span> and left the overall issue of </span>slavery unsettled<span>.</span>
He updated the old western Roman Empire laws to make them compatible with the remaining eastern Roman Empire which was about all that was left by the time he came to power in the 6th century.
