In many ways racism was still prominent within the United States after the civil war. Many laws were set in place to keep African Americans below white Americans. These were known as the Jim Crow laws. Even after the Jim Crow laws were removed segregation and civil rights issues were common until the 1960’s.
The tradition of building a ziggurat was started by the Sumerians, but other civilizations of Mesopotamia such as the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and the Assyrians also built ziggurats.
