During the early Byzantine period it served as a place of refuge against foreign invaders. From the 10th century, Thebes became a centre of the new silk trade, its silk workshops boosted by imports of soaps and dyes from Athens. The growth of this trade in Thebes continued to such an extent that by the middle of the 12th century, the city had become the biggest producer of silks in the entire Byzantine empire, surpassing even the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. The women of Thebes were famed for their skills at weaving. Theban silk was prized above all others during this period, both for its quality and its excellent reputation.
<span>Both Harding and Coolidge wanted less governmental regulation of businesses. Their Conservative policies led to the Great Depression as richer people got richer and poorer people became poorer, less regulation of businesses means that standards will not necessarily be met, and business owners can pay less taxes, product prices increase, but taxation is lowered.</span>
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War, gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern democracy.
<span>They depended on indigenous political and trading networks that brought slaves to the coasts.</span>
