Which of the following was a difficulty faced by the ottoman empire in the 1700s and 1800s?           a. lack of trained artisans   b. financial independence   c. refusal to trade with other nations   d. rebelling ethnic groups

B. Financial Independence 

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.