What factors led to the downfall of the mesopotamian city-states and to what effect?

It shows that the social order was shifting from the gods to the people. Kings who were originally either military leaders or rich landowners engaged in sacred marriage with the highest priestess of the city's temple, and then they took over and called themselves prieste.

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jim crow laws were enacted in northern states.

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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