Both Sargon and Hammurabi were leaders of the Mesopotamia. According to legend, the mother of Sargon abandoned him in a basket in a river; as a man he worked in Kish, a Sumerian city-state, which he took over and later created an empire which he ruled for over fifty years. Similarly to Sargon´s accomplishments, Hammurabi also took over an important city, Larsa; he later took the whole of Mesopotamia; he is best known for his creation of a Law Code.
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In the United States, voting poll taxes (whose payment was a precondition to voting in an election) have been used to disenfranchise impoverished and minority voters (especially under Reconstruction).
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B. The Torah is comprised of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible; the Talmud is comprised of teachings about the Torah.
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The WCTU was a religious organization whose primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment. The Woman's Christian Union (WCTU) was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in November of 1874.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union<span> (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.</span>
