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"John (“Jack”) Reed wasn’t looking backward to the French Revolution or even the Paris Commune when he chronicled the seizure of power of the Russian Revolution of 1917. As a 30-year-old independent radical journalist, he was looking at it with fresh eyes. What he saw was not just the overthrow of a repressive monarchist oligarchy and its attendant bourgeois class, but a vast democratic, majoritarian movement based on “soviets,” or councils, made up of workers, soldiers, and peasants. Although he had been embedded in Pancho Villa’s rebel army in Mexico and covered Industrial Workers of the World strikes in New Jersey and miners’ struggles in Colorado, it was witnessing the cataclysmic events in Russia that confirmed him as a revolutionary."-Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
The conflict between Sumerians<span> and Elamites probably extended back to Neolithic ... The almost constant occurrence of war </span>among<span> the </span>city-states<span> of </span>Sumer<span> for two .... a situation that </span>led<span> to a relatively even development of weapons technology .</span>
Exclusive jurisdiction is when only a single court, or a type of court, has jurisdiction over the matter in question. An easy example for this is that the United States District Courts have exclusive jurisdiction in cases of bankruptcy, or that the Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction on reviewing other courts' decisions.