The following question refers to a hypothetical situation. You are a member of the House of Representatives, and you’ve just been chosen to be on the Ways and Means Committee. You come home and tell your family, and they look at you with blank stares. “So what does that mean?” they ask. Explain the privileges, restrictions, and duties of sitting on the Ways and Means Committee.

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.

the constitution gives congress the power to regulate commerce "among" the several states.

mapmaking. cartography had been an art form for many years, but it wasn’t until the renaissance when ptolemy’s ancient system of latitude and longitude was rediscovered that mapmakers were able to make surprisingly accurate and useful maps.