Answer: A law that punishes people for a crime that was not a crime when it was committed. Congress cannot pass these laws.
Explanation:
The emperors and empresses convoked religious councils, which had to make a decision. These councils were convoked only to solve issues caused by the Iconoclast Controversy.
<em>The mobs smashed newly invented machines as a form of protest against the insertion of the machines in textile industry. The machines changed the whole process of production and competition in the marketing, the machines speed up the production process in some case 100 times more than what a human would spend to do a job. So the machinery threatens human jobs positions and salaries in the factories. </em>
It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.