The size of the Atlantic slave trade dramatically transformed African societies. The slave trade brought about a negative impact on African societies and led to the long-term impoverishment of West Africa. This intensified effects that were already present amongst its rulers, kinships, kingdoms and in society.
The Democrats held the majority of the seats in the house and senate.
Charlemagne's crowning made the Byzantine Emperor redundant, and relations between the East and the West deteriorated until a formal split occurred in 1054. The Eastern Church became the Greek Orthodox Church by severing all ties with Rome and the Roman Catholic Church — from the pope to the Holy Roman Emperor on down.
The Declaration of Independence argues that people are "<span>endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," and that the role of government is to protect those rights. When the government stops doing so, the people have a right to change their government.
</span>The Declaration is very specific about this: "<span>To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."</span>
