In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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Sumer
(noun) an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
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(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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