The term "a bi-cameral legislature" refers to any lawmaking body of government that consists of two separate houses of chambers.
Unequal treaty, in Chinese history, any of a series of treaties and agreements in which China was forced to concede many of its territorial and sovereignty rights. They were negotiated during the 19th and early 20th centuries between China and foreign imperialist powers, especially Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan.
It helped expand America and helped other nations realize they should now be independent as they were influenced from their neighboring nations. They all began to become Independent which slowly ended isolationism.
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justinians plague: the plague killed 1/5th of the population of its imperial city
invading forces: The slavs attacked the Byzantium, so the Byzantines arranged for the avars to attack the slavs, which failed since it caused slavs to move further in the empire and the avars attacking the Byzantines
crusades: the Crusaders looted and destroyed parts of Constantinople
Ottomans: the Byzantine Ottoman wars led to the Byzantiums losing a lot of land and resources, even losing Constantinople by the hands of Sultān Mehmet Fatïh (Rahimullah)