The Justinian
Code was created in order to create one single set of laws for all of the
Byzantine Empire. This code was extremely important because it served as the
basis for everyday actions within the empire including marriage, criminal
justice, slavery, and property rights. Along with this, the code ended up
serving as the basis for the laws of the Byzantine Empire for the next 900
years. Countries all over world use ideas from Justinian Code's in order to
form a comprehensive set of laws. The four sections of the code are the Codex
Constitutionum, Digesta, Institutiones, and the Novella Constitutiones Post
Codicem.
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The assembly line, driven by conveyor belts, reduced production time for a Model T to just 93 minutes by dividing the process into 45 steps. Producing cars quicker than paint of the day could dry, it had an immense influence on the world.
<span>“When the Negro was in Vogue” describes a period in the history of the United States which generally accepted racism against African Americans.
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For many, it had become a way of life. While not slaves, African Americans were considered second-class citizens who could not dine in the same restaurants as whites and neither could they go the same school or even take the same part of the bus.
African Americans were not given a lot of opportunities to climb up the economic ladder and yet, in all this, the Entertainment clubs in Harlem were the most popular in the country which even the white population attended and enjoyed.
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1898: The Birth of a Superpower. The 1898 Treaty of Paris ending the war gave Cuba its independence and also ceded important Spanish possessions to the United States—notably Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the small island of Guam. The United States was suddenly a colonial power with overseas dependencies.
