Answer:
They were in charge of the trade route in Europe and asia
The government created under the Articles lacked the power to tax. And the only way it could get money to pay its debts was to ask states to give funds. But states didn't have to or didn't give enough. So all in all the federal government was pretty weak.
A. Although they were immortal, they had many characteristics of humans.
There are two many questions, and not spaced out its hard to read them.