Citizen participation has lessened in Cuba as a result of Fidel Castro's installation of a "communist" type of government, since communist governments tend to silence those who disagree with governmental policies.
Brown v. Board of Education reversed the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
It struck a balance between large slave states in the South and smaller northern states that had abolished slavery. It restricted, but not eliminated, the apportioned congressional representation of slave states by limiting the Census to counting slaves as only three-fifths of a person.
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Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, city in the western African country of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture.For more than 600 years, Timbuktu was a significant religious, cultural and commercial center whose residents traveled throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. Timbuktu was famous for educating important scholars who were well known throughout the Islamic world.
According to legend, Carthage was founded by the Phoenician Queen Elissa (better known as Dido) sometime around 813 BCE. The city (in modern-day Tunisia<span>, </span>North Africa<span>) was originally known as Kart-hadasht (new city) to distinguish it from the older Phoenician city of Utica nearby.</span>