the main reason the Iowa Caucuses are important is because it is the first state in the US where a ballot is cast. Despite being tiny, atypical of the rest of the US, and providing about 1 per cent of the nation’s delegates, the state is the first indicator of whether a prospective presidential candidate’s support is holding up.
A historian would be the most likely person to analyze a tablet with cuneiform to determine what goods were traded by the merchants.
The central issue was reconstructing the nation after the Civil War.