Where was byzantium located? gibraltar strait bosporus strait mediterranean sea nile river

Correct Bosporus strait. The city of Byzantium was located strategically on the Bosporus, the narrow strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

The city of Byzantium (now Istanbul) achieved its importance due to its control over the Bosporus, and the Bosporan kingdom, greatest state in the northern part of the Black Sea. It also took on particular importance since it allowed Greece to take control of the "Grain Route".

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the articles of confederation placed most of the power on the feds

legislative branch:

one of the three branches of government divided between the senate and the house of representatives.

- creates or makes laws

- power to override a veto

executive branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the president.

- enforces or carries out laws

- power to veto a bill sent to it by congress

judicial branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court.

- interprets laws

- power to declare laws or actions by the government unconstitutional