Answer:
I think one way taxes help our econmey is that they give money to the government, which they distrubite among the needs of the public.
Explanation:
The answer to this question is b
During both periods, countries with much wealth and power wanted to expand their territories and become huge empires. Of course, we all know how that ended with many of them either being completely wiped off the map, or becoming significantly weaker after a while.
