D. A historian reads a journal entry by a pilgrim.
Hammurabi keenly understood that, to achieve this goal, he needed one universal set of laws for the diverse peoples he conquered.
Trial by cold water was when the accused was thrown into a pool of water bound. If he/she sank and drowned he/she was innocent (and conveniently dead). If he/she floated and did not sink, he was taken to have been "rejected" by the water and must necessarily be guilty.
<span>Food distribution in communities favored the chief’s family.</span>
arguing legal cases in court
The correct option is "the national currency was too weak"
While the Southerners resigned their seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, secession allowed the Republicans to approve proposals that had been blocked by the Southern senators before the war. Among these laws that were approved highlighted the Morrill Act, through which the important iron industry was protected; the Homestead Act, according to which all free citizens who applied for 160 acres of land not yet worked from the territories outside the Thirteen Colonies would be granted; the construction of a transcontinental railroad; the National Banking Act, with which the use of the national currency was developed and the Law of Legal Course of 1862, which authorized the use of bank notes. Fees on income to finance the war were also approved with the Tax Act.