Constantinople(former name for Istanbul) was the centere of Byzantine trade and culture and was incredibly diverse. The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival of Greek and Roman studies, which influenced the Renaissance.
Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for starting the war. They also wanted to be sure new governments in the southern states would support the Republican Party
Answer:
A
Explanation:
answer was on the internet.
Sumerian culture built upon the ancient economic technologies of paying for expansion wars via taxes and debt. When all that failed, they also created widespread debt forgiveness, as in a periodic territory-wide “jubilee” event. That is to say, they helped invent debt-based ruling class defined capitalism, discovered that it consistently fails, and then patched over its inherent gradual failings via periodic system-wide reset.