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In the 1400s European explorers tested uncharted oceans in search of a better rute to Asia.
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There were conflicts between French and England. The issue was ownership of the several French territories.
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The printing press has changed people's life by printing books so people can be educated through that.
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the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
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Mediterranean, which was also subdued by the Arab conquerors of later centuries and by the Ottoman rulers who followed them. Ottoman expansion began in 1517 when Turkish troops defeated the Egyptian army.
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Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543.
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In 1551 Tripoli fell to the Turks, in 1574 a Turkish military force took Tunis and in 1587 Algeria became a Turkish regency.
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In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I was awarded the precursor of the British East India Company (EIC) with a Royal Charter.
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The establishment of sugarcane plantations in Brazil during the 16th and 17th centuries resulted in the widespread deforestation of large areas of the country. This deforestation had several negative environmental impacts, including the loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, and an increase in soil erosion
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The Cocoliztli epidemic, also known as the Great Mortality, was a series of devastating outbreaks of disease that swept through Mexico and Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The exact cause of the epidemic is still debated by historians and scientists, but it is widely believed to have been a combination of factors, including disease, environmental changes, and population displacement.
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It was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sought to restore the Catholic monarchy to England after decades of persecution against Catholics.
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Galileo condemned by the Catholic church for arguing that the sun is the center of universe
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Newton's laws of motion are three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it.
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Newton's Mathematical principal of Natural philosophy becomes one of his several pioneering work of scientific inquiry
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The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature
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John Lock's influential Tow treaties on civil government is published
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Salem witch trials take place in Massachusetts By a Colony.
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Elizabeth was born in 12/29/1709 on Moscow Russia
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Voltaire write Letter Concerning the English Nation is published
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American Colonies declare independence from the British monarch. Adam Smith's important economics book the Wealth of Nation is published.
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French revolutions occur. The people gained freedom by overthrowing the French monarchs Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, who were the embodiment of luxury and waste, with the blood of the poor people who were struggling with taxes and tyranny to end the Enlightenment.
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The fear of lower classes exploded
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The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791 and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence
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The French revolution end.
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The industrial revolution of the 1800s known no borders factories in Europe and the United state consumed tons of row materials and churned out the goods.
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In the mid-1800s Europe and other countries saw themselves as an actor on the world stage and each country wanted to play a starring role.
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The new king, Charles X, who had succeeded his elder brother, Louis XVIII, in 1820, was even less popular than his predecessor.
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In 1830 France decided to intervene. The motivation for this decision was to be found in the sphere of French domestic politics. After Napoleon, the Bourbons had again ascended the throne, but their regime — the Restoration — was very unpopular.
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Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909
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Throughout the 1800s, European leaders urged their citizen's far-off colonies. Many of them responded. In the 1840s, for example. for example, thousands of French citizens sailed across the farms and estates on lands seized from local Algerian farmers.
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The British, meanwhile, emigrated to the far corner of the globe, hoping to find opportunities, and New Zealand in the 1850s in search of gold. As the British government continued to acquire a vast tract of land in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, the phrase "the sun never sets on the British Empire" became a popular way of describing Great Britain's vast Holding.
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The army became a problem in itself, however, in May 1857 when rumors spread among the Indian sepoys that the new breech-loading Enfield Rifles were lubricated with pig and cow lard.
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The General German Workers' Association (German: Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiter-Verein, ADAV) was a German political party founded on 23 May 1863 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony by Ferdinand Lassalle. It was the first organized mass working-class party in European history.
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The Trades Union Congress is a national trade union center, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members.
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Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883, in Italy. He is remembered as establishing the first fascist movement in the world
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Benito Mussolini was born on July 28, 1883, in Verano di Costa, Italy, Mussolini was the son of a blacksmith and ardent socialist Alessandro Mussolini, and a devout Catholic mother, Rosa Maltoni.
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On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region
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Alexander III was the Emperor of Russia.
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The General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes, and second largest in terms of membership numbers.
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On 17 December 1909, Leopold II died at Laeken,
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The environment has changed through WW1
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A period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire, begun during the First World War.
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On 13 April 1919, when peaceful protestors defied a government order and demonstrated against British colonial rule in Amritsar, they were blocked inside the walled Jallianwala Gardens and fired upon by Gurkha soldiers.
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Mussolini became the youngest prime master of Italy.
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
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Mussolini ruled over Italy.
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The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, and ending with Communist control of mainland China.
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Mahatma Gandhi led three major nationwide protests which achieved varying degrees of success in 1920-1922, 1930-1934 and 1942.
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Adolf Hitler got power over German and ruled German by Nazism.
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Franco gained military support from various regained group especially Nazi German and Kingdom of Italy
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Churchill’s decision to send grain from Bengal to Yugoslavia to increase reserve stocks for the British Army caused the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, in which 4.3 million Indians died.
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On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini and his wife were shot by an Italian partisan who had arrested the couple trying to escape to Switzerland.
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In 1947, Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never previously spent any time in India, traveled to the subcontinent where he drew the division between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan over a single lunch
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In 1947, the British eventually agreed to grant the subcontinent its independence as two separate religious nation-states, tactically using independence as a bargaining chip to erase the enormous debt that Britain owed India.
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.
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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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The Battle of Algiers provides a useful vehicle for the discussion of colonialism, wars of national liberation, and leftist politics, as well as contemporary issues regarding terrorism, torture, and the American military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Amoco Cadiz oil spill took place on 16 March 1978, when the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 2 km from the coast of Brittany, France. The vessel ultimately split in three and sank.
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