The Kingdom of Israel was split into two, namely the Kingdom of Israel also known as the Northern Kingdom which covers the cities of <span>Shechem and Samaria, and the Kingdom of Judah also known as the Southern Kingdom which includes Jerusalem. The main reason was that when King Solomon died, his son Rehoboam took his father's throne. However, the tribes in the northern part of Israel refused to submit themselves to Rehoboam and created another kingdom in the north. </span>
The candidate had to be trained as a scholar and then pass a series of written examinations. The Chinese civil service system, established in 124 B.C.E., required potential officials to be trained as scholars and then pass rigorous examinations to qualify for office.
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<span>new Southern state legislatures passed restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South.</span>
