The decay of the Byzantine Empire can be traced back to the mid 11th century when the empire was facing a triple crisis: the advance of Seljuk Empire (Turks) in the East; the advance of the Catholic Crusaders from the west; and the progressive feudalization of the Byzantine Empire.
During the following centuries, the Byzantine Empire would be under constant threat from the Seljuk Empire in Anatolia, and it also would be submerged into the conflicts of the Crusades. Several times the Crusaders from the Holy Roman Empire and from the Italian Republics wanted to take the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, as a way to extend the dominion of the Catholic Church to the territory of the Greek Orthodox Church. Indeed, the crusaders succeeded in doing so in 1204 and established the Latin Empire of Constantinople, which fell in 1261, and the Byzantine Empire was reestablished, but much weaker than before. Since then the empire would focus more on Europe, forgetting the threat coming from Asia: the Seljuks and the Mongols.
During the following century the Byzantine Empire would become one of the numerous and weak Balcanic states. At this time, one of the Seljuk sultanates that was growing in power and extension in Anatolia, the Ottoman Sultanate, became the largest threat and conquered most of what was left from the Byzantine Empire. At 1450 Constantinople was abandoned to its luck from other Christian kingdoms and ready to fall into the Ottoman hands.
Between 1890 and 1920, America experienced a movement in which some outspoken reformers denounce their nonconformity about a series of social and political situations presented during the industrialization of the country. These reformers became known as “Muckrakers”. In fact, they publicly denounce issues like labor exploitation, child labor, economic disparity, and the living conditions of the working class. Some of the most prominent muckrakers include Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens.
Ida Tarbell, a Pennsylvanian journalist and author, exposed the dishonest business of the Standard Oil Company. In her 1904-book <em>The History of the Standard Oil Company</em>, Tarbell exposed the way in which the company created its monopoly, with the participation of Theodore Roosevelt. Moreover, the publication led to the subsequent dissolution of the company.
Jacob Riis, a Danish-born photographer, exposed the terrible living conditions of the poor through their work. His photographs focused the attention of the public on the daily life of urban slums. Similarly was the work of Lincoln Steffens, a reporter from New York. Steffens addressed the issue of corruption in municipal governments in his boo<em>k The Shame of the Cities</em>.
Answer:
Slaves is what event that took place to create the north west rebellion
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Answer: It was the first representative assembly in the colonies.
Explanation:
The House of Burgesses in Virginia was a representative assembly in Virginia that modelled the British system and was meant to introduce laws for the colony. It had representatives from the colony's 11 settlements and as such was the first of its kind in the colonies.
Other colonies were able to base their representative assemblies on this model thus leading to more democracy in the colonies thereby paving the way for the democratic government that would take over after independence from the British.
