During the war, the EXECUTIVE powers of the federal government were expanded. At Andersonsville, confederate troops shot to death more than 200 African-American prisoners as they pleaded for their lives. In 1863, the CONFEDERACY instituted the first income tax, taking a specified percentage of an individual's income.
<span>The ruler that was the first to create a code of laws that were engraved in stone was King Hammurabi. Hammurabi was was the sixth king to reign over First Babylonian dynasty. He was in power from 1792 BC through 17950 BC. Prior to him, his father Sin Muballit ruled but eventually had to leave his position due to poor health.</span>
There has always been slavery inside Africa.
(Sadly slavery is still in Africa today.)
Europeans sold goods that the kingdoms wanted.
The kingdoms kept pushing further and further into the interior.
This created a continuous cycle.
Whites were sold into slavery in Africa also.
(They were captured from barbery pirates in North Africa.)
Yes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Around 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China under the Qin Dynasty, ordered that earlier fortifications between states be removed and a number of existing walls along the northern border be joined into a single system that would extend for more than 10,000 li (a li is about one-third of a mile) .
Explanation:
