Well, when it was originally formed, the function of the secret police in soviet union was to investigate counter revolutionary crimes. After the reign of Joseph stalin, the secret police gained punitive power and renamed into People commisariat of internal affairs.
Sumerians built ziggurats because they believed that they would be more closely connected to the heavens. They believed that ziggurats connected the earth and the heavens.
Answer is b, congress was trying to gain control of ohio country.
