5. What is an example of how local taxes might be used?
Local taxes fund government services including police and fire services, education and health services, libraries, road maintenance, and other programs and projects which benefit the community at large. Many of these services also receive federal funds in the form of grants.
Most Jews lived as minorities because Jews remained united despite the the often severe treatment they faced in other lands, European Jews were ordered to leave Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492
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The reason that gave birth to similarities between the Almoravid and the Almohad empires which were Muslim dynasties was the pilgrimage that they undertook. This is because as a result of this pilgrimage, they brought back foreign Arabic culture and influences to their respective empires. Because the origin of these cultures was the same, it lent similarity to the two empires.