Answer:
Lack of power to enforce taxation
Explanation:
The Articles of Confederation couldn't collect money from the states, they could only ask nicely. When the only state that ended up paying taxes was Virginia, Congress was basically broke. They couldn't pay soldiers and had a hard time keeping up with the war.
Answer:
The Byzantine Empire was the eastern continuation of the Roman Empire after the Western Roman Empire's fall in the fifth century CE. It lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire until the Ottoman conquest in 1453.