I think you are referring to Mansa Musa. He was a king that had good intentions on giving out his gold but caused an economic crisis.
Hi. I think the details of what the author said were not included in your post. I researched and found similar question but with the additional information. Here's my answer:
According to the author, the conditions in Europe during 800's was chaotic. The Frankish Empire was disintegrated to federation of feudal lords, Church did not have power, knights forcing the peasants to pay taxes. Muslims controlled Spain.
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Layers of government. The federal government didn't have a characteristic of this form.
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The Congress meets in Washington to make laws by drafting bills with elaborate debate and forwarding the bills to the president for assent to become a law.
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The Congress do meet at the Capital Hill in Washington at the district of Columbia once in a calendar year with two sessions based on the house of rep members having to terms to make new laws. It consists of both the Senators(100) and house of representative members(435).