He articles of confederation was our first form of government during and after the revolutionary war. it was weak and ineffective for many reasons, and two of the most important were that the government could not levy taxes, and did not have an executive branch. why are these two factors so important to a functioning government? \

The articles of the confederation was the first constitution of USA. It was approved by the second continental congress in November 1777. The articles formed a war time confederation of states with limited power to the central government. It also provided the procedures for the congress to work. But there were lots of issues with the articles, two important issues were that the central government was not provided with the power to collect taxes to fund its operations and the articles only had one chamber and each state had one vote. These two issues were important because due to inability to collect taxes central government was unable to get funds for maintaining an effective military or to back its paper currency. It was dependent on the states for getting funds. Having one chamber of congress and granting one vote to each state allowed the states to act independently from the central government. Both of these weakened the coordination between the central government and the states and weakened United States.

tenochtitlan (also spelled tenochtitlán), located on an island near the western shore of lake texcoco in central mexico, was the capital city and religious centre of the aztec civilization. the traditional founding date of the city was 1345 ce and it remained the most important aztec centre until its destruction at the hands of the conquering spanish led by hernán cortés in 1521 ce, which led to the final collapse of the aztec empire.

although the crusades failed to capture jerusalem, they had several major impacts on western europe. they increased the authority of the king: sometimes nobles died in battle without leaving an heir in which case the king got their land. kings passed taxes to pay for the crusades.