Because feudalism had never been firmly established in italy, growing city-states were able to
a. appeal to the central government for assistance with expansion
b. barter various goods and services provided by the merchants for food crops from surrounding farms
c. freeze assets of the nobility to enrich the political leaders of the city-state
d. expand into surrounding areas by taking lands away from nobles

this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.

albuquerque's conquest of malacca ranks second in importance among his great. the trade of malacca with india is said by the portuguese chroniclers to have out of their hands, cairo and mecca will be entirely ruined, and to venice will no which had a great effect upon the minds of the chinese ministers