<span>D. The judicial branch was less powerful than the executive and legislative branches</span>
<span>A major purpose of these laws was to preserve slavery. In the first two years after the Civil War, white-dominated southern legislatures passed Black Codes modeled after the earlier slave codes. They were particularly concerned with controlling movement and labor, as slavery had given way to a free labor system.</span>
The crusades Greatly affected the feudal system and began to lose it hold on society which eventually led to the Renaissance. Knights had to sell their land to be able to live, due to the feudal system crashing. So if they were not able to make enough by selling their land, they were left broke. They were also forced to serve nobles in personal armies.
By 1500, the Aztec Empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean
to the Gulf of Mexico, controlling 28 million people. By then, Tenochtitlan and
other nearby islands has fused into one great capital city, with an estimated population
of 400,000. They constructed a system of dams and aqueducts to control
lake levels and bring in fresh water from the mainland to supplement the
springs on the islands since then all else follows like their source of food
through the system of hydraulic agriculture, draining swampland and creating
artificial islands to grow food for the city. Making their civilization a successful
one.
