In the 1700s, the Ottoman Empire began to rapidly deteriorate following the Russo-Turkish Wars. A series of treaties created during that time caused the empire to lose some of its economic independence. ... Following the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire officially came to an end with the Treaty of Sevres.
The ancient Roman republic had three branches of government. In the beginning, the legislative branch was the Senate, a group made up of 300 citizens from Rome's patrician class, the oldest and wealthiest families of Rome. It was the patricians, tired of obeying the king, who revolted and threw out Tarquinius Superbus.
The Anti-Federalists’ main objection to ratifying the Constitution was that it would give the federal government too much power--perhaps so much that it would become tyrannical.
<span>John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress
on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an
attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their
loyalty to the British crown.</span>
