The Achaemenid Empire (558–330 BC) of Persia, popularly referred to as the Persian empire, was a monarchy. It was ruled by a single hereditary leader, who considered himself divinely authorized to hold absolute power.
The Persian empire was a model of efficient ancient administration. The monarch appointed satraps as regional leaders, and delegated power in a way the preserved sufficient local autonomy to prevent most (non-Greek) subjects from wishing to revolt. It had an efficient system of roads and messengers, allowing rule over a large geographic area, and a regular system of taxation that established it on a sound financial footing. It also had a complex and uniform law code.
Hamburg is the largest city in Europe that is not the capital of a country.
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s
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The first Congress set the number of justices as a part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
The Jim Crow era directly followed the Reconstruction period in the United States history. The name Jim Crow comes from a white actor who portrayed a dim witted black slave in the 1830's. Jim Crow is used to describe segregation laws, customs, etc.
