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Enabled weavers to weave faster
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The spinning jenny was made by James Hargreaves. The spinning jenny spins many threads from wool.
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The 3rd Estate were locked out of a meeting so they met inside of a indoor tennis court and wrote a constitution.
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Parisians storm the Bastille to seize weapons to defend themselves against the King
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Women go to Versailles to surround the king and take him and his entourage of 60,000 people back to Paris.
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During the French Revolution there was widespread crop failures so the price of bread rose.
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This helped focus on political debates and law making in France.
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Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette are beheaded which worries other rulers in Europe.
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He beheads 40,000 peasants.
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Robespierre beheaded 40,000 people so when Napoleon came he beheaded him
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It overthrew the Directory and established the French
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The coup d'etat was a military overthrow of the government that was led by Napoleon and the French army.
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wide spread movement of Slavic people into the Middle East, Central Asia, and Balkans.
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Napoleon crowned himself Emperor in order to be more powerful than the church
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France was in a war with Spain and its allies Portugal and Britain. Spanish nationalism grows and Napoleons brother Joseph takes the thrown.
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The Congress of Vienna restores peace for almost 50 years, which started a dictatorship. It restored the royal families and set up borders in Europe.
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The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's biggest failure. He went to Russia in the middle of which crushed his army. When he is defeated he is exiled to Elba.
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Between Russia & Ottoman Empire, Russia lost
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Japan has been closed for trade and Americans want that to change. Matthew Perry opens Japan with out naval superiority.
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Because of reforms in Russia they begin to move away from feudalism and free the serfs.
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The Meiji restorations abolished feudalism and the samauri class. It gave the emperor more power and gave the people less voting rights.
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The Trans Siberian Railroad was made to make trade easier for Russians and creates a spur on coal and iron production.
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fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan over control of Korea
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Japanese win this war with Russia that signals that they are the strongest asian country.
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military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
