Cuneiform is a type of writing that was invented in Mesopotamia
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You need ID to get a drink, drive, and a job. Why not to vote?
The only Europeans that were allowed to trade with the Japanese following the expulsion of all christians were the Dutch.
During the Sakoku, the isolationist foreign policy of the Tokugawa shogunate, the only contact with european influence allowed was with the Dutch who had a factory at Dejima in Nagasaki, and through the Dutch East India Company who was allowed to operate in Nagasaki.
The main reason why the US sent troops to overthrow Afghanistan's government in 2001 was because the nation was harboring members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, which was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
With more than one ruler the empire would be better suited to protect itself from threats from barbarians and persia
