Taxes // the colonies didn’t approve of this, later calling it “taxation without representation”
The correct answer is B) Sargon of Akkad.
The events referred to in the inscription above can be most accurately said to have been impossible without the accomplishments of Sargon of Akkad.
We are talking about the first Emperor of the Akkadians, Sargon the Great. He was the "terror" of many Sumerian city-states. He was feared and respected for all the above-mentioned accomplishments. Babylonian and Assyrian recorded history wrote about Sargon that he was a great ruler that led his warrior troops to conquer many regions of Mesopotamia. This literature renown him as a man that overcome poverty in his childhood and became a great Emperor.
American citizens are well known by their optimism, and it was not an exception during Alexis de Tocquevill’s time. He was a French observer of American life in the 19th century and according to his views on Americans on those days, quote: “they have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man [...].They all consider society as a body in a state of improvement.” In opposition to the rest of the world, enthusiasm, energy, and confidence in their country’s future characterized American citizens.
Quote: “Most Americans seem to believe that the future can be better and that they are responsible for doing their best to make it that way.”
