Businesses were able to run without GOV. interfering.
The correct answer is Rome, Italy. This is because although the name comes from the 19th century, the road system was used as far as 2 BC, meaning that Rome was a great empire then and there is even a saying that all roads lead to Rome. Of course it's different nowadays, but at that point in time it connected those two cities, Chang'an and Rome.
There were several reasons why the Founding Fathers replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution, but the main one is that the Articles gave Congress no power to tax the states, which was very much needed for debt payments.
