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The industrial revolution was unpinned by the agricultural revolutions. The huge increase in food supported the expansion. It meant that less farmers were needed. It also meant that farmers relied on technology and heavy machinery more than making and doing things by hand. This led to having rarely any fammines. -
The first time that the British had landed in Australia. it was also when they took it over Australia from the native Australians (Aboriginals). -
Napoleonic Wars was a series of wars that Napolean started. Along with the French Revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic Wars constitute a 23-year period of recurrent conflict that concluded only with the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon’s second abdication on June 22, 1815. -
The Age of Revolution is the period of history that saw large scale revolutionary movements in Europe and the American colonies from 1774 to 1849. It is Particularly important to the shape of our modern international system, the successes of this time period contributed to the replacement of absolutist monarchies with representative governments grounded in a written constitution of rights, as well as the construction of nation states based around the ideas of shared cultures and history. -
The infamous shootout between the Kelly gang (Ned Kelly) and four Victoria Police officers. -
The Boxers made a violent campaign to drive all foreigners out of China. They were ordinary villagers who reacted violently against the foreigners. -
The battle off Beersheba was the first better fought mainly on horses. There were horses imported from Australia and most of them never came home. There was two quadrants that were held as the horses went across the trenches. No horses came home.