Male citizens in Athens could vote on all the decisions that affected the city and serve on juries. However, democracy was not open to everyone. Citizen women and children were not allowed to vote. Slaves and foreigners living in Athens (known as metics) were banned from participating in government.
<span>What event prompted the Persian Gulf War?
</span><span>The correct answer is:
</span><span>A) Iraq invaded KUWAIT
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The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 prompted the Gulf War, but this event was made possible by the end of the Cold War in 1989. The basis for the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait goes back to the end of World War 1, when Kuwait was not included as a part of Iraq.
Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill were two lawyers in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. In this case, Brown was fighting to end school segregation. Marshall and Hill helped Brown win this Supreme Court case and helped end school segregation.
This win in the Brown vs. Board of Education case stated that the idea of "separate but equal," established in the Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case, was unconstitutional. This separate but equal law violated the 14th amendment.
