Ziggurats, are the temples of the Sumerian States.
I think the author is Niccolo Machiavelli.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates in the United States. This meeting took place from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The delegates dicussed different ways in which the could collectively respond to the acts of the British government, which had included a blockade of Boston Harbor. The delegates agreed to impose an economic boycott on British trade.
It would be D. the new territories acquired fueled a violent debate over the extension of slavery into these territories
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