Based on this passage and what you have learned about the states, the states were unwilling to voluntarily work together in a confederation because each state had its own interests and needs.
Each state was in favor of proceeding their own interests and needs they believed that focusing on their needs would be a much better option in the long run. Unity wasn’t a wide practice during that era too.
Women were viewed as the second class members within their influence of the roman Catholic church on women's position in the medieval society
Whos thesis, but on some personal advice you get nowhere when arguing ;)