The Chinese merchant class benefitted the most from the trade conducted on the silk road. The silk road trade allowed the Chinese economy to grow and also established trade relations with Europeans.
Anti- Federalists opposed the new constitution. Before we were under the articles of confederation which was a weak government. The new constitution was a good idea but some opposed and made the Anti-Federalists papers firing back on Alexander Hamiltons Federalist papers which promoted the idea of the new constitution.
After the revolutionary war, the USA formed a confederacy its a loose union of independent states. hope this helps :)
Proponents of this concept interpret these passages as specifying five separate crowns, these being the Crown of Life; the Incorruptible Crown; the Crown of Righteousness; the Crown of Glory; and the Crown of Exultation.