Hammurabi was a Babylonian ruler who expanded his empire to control most of Mesopotamia by 1750 BCE. Hammurabi governed his empire by the use of his codes that were engraved in large basalt steles that stood in his cities.
10 percent before the cival war
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Almost 2.6 billion U.S. dollars was the toll revenue generated by the Panama Canal during the fiscal year 2019 (from October 2018 to September 2019), up from around 2.5 billion U.S. dollars reported a year earlier. Around 46.2 percent of that revenue was generated by tolls from container vessels
Okay, so, just from the top of my head, I think that it is because of the growing belief of "Manifest Destiny" in the nineteenth century. I'm not sure if this is the actual right answer for your question, but I do know that Manifest Destiny was in the nineteenth century and was the widely held belief in the USA that American settlers were destined to expand through out the continent. And I think both the USA and Europe wanted to expand, it was kind of a copetition/conflict they had. This was actually how Canada and Alaska came to be I believe. This was a simple explanation btw. cx
