French and Americans were battling the Brits and their supply was also cut off. <span />
It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
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The oldest recognizable signs of permanent human habitation and urbanization go back abut 12,500 years -- sites like Jericho<span> and </span>Göbekli Tepe<span> both show persistent communities who had the resources to build permanent structures and enough surplus food and labor to support specialists -- however both of those sites also show that hunting remained an important component of the community's way of life. There are certainly other examples of permanent settlements from this same period scattered around, particularly in the region of modern Syria, Turkey, Armenia and Iraq. </span>
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power, which caused a reaction. Fundamentalist Islamic Sharia law was infused into Iranian government policies and <span>Muslim countries rejected and suppressed Islamic fundamentalists.</span>
