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The Ottoman was a powerful empire and they took control over Constantinople in 1453. The fall of Constantinople showed how much strength the Ottoman empire had.
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The spanish colonized many places in Africa. There are now some Spanish cities in Africa, even though africa is not under spanish rule anymore.
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The Portuguese began their empire by looking for gold in Africa. They then kept colonizing and looking for land and wealth.
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In the Colombian Exchange turkeys were imported from America to spain. Turkeys became a vital food source for people all around the world.
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The French and British were at war for 7 years. There was a treaty called the treaty of Paris which ended this 7 year war, this left the British being dominant in Canada.
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In the 18th century Russia took over Ukraine. The reasons for this anexation were that Russia wanted fertile agricultural land which Ukraine had. This helped feed the empire.
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Karl Marx and Engels wrote a manifesto that outlined the communist party.
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There was much discrimination amongst the sepoy soldiers who were Muslim or Hindu, people were angry about racist regulations and disrespect that was put on them.
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The first uprising was in may of 1957 in a military base close to the capital city Delhi. It was caused by racism against soldiers.
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The Suez canal was a canal in Egypt that cut the trip to the Indian ocean in half from europe.
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The Qing empire was a strong government and the British King George the 3rd wanted to open more trading ports in china but the Qing emperors denied his request.
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There was rising ideas of social progress in the 1900s. Genocide became common. Genocide is a mass killing of a group of people. Hitler created mass genocide.
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Qings dynasty faced defeats against places like Britain and Japan, there was also issues like natural disasters and famine.
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Art was used to make people join the war. There were posters for the war. Artists were sent to the battlefield to sketch the war.
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There were many wars fought in the middle east most of them had to do with oil.
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Many mexican revolutionaries disagreed about their revolutions. This was because the revolution was actually two revolutions.
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China was under foreign control because they borrowed money from foreign banks which caused the xinhai revolution.
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Some of the causes of World War 1 were: Nationalist passions, greed amongst empires, and corrupt relations between countries
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Europe was transformed after ww1, Political boundries were redrawn and new countries formed
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Ww1 had many lasting affects over the world some of those affects were: Many cities and towns were destroyed, mass deaths and societies struggled
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This was a treaty that divided Ottoman territories into european spheres after the war.
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The study of evolution was prohibited because it did not support Marxs ideas of human development.
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The rise of fascism started two decades before the first world war
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Hitler used very un humane ways of killing innocent people, extermination camps would gas people killing them in the most brutal ways.
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In the war the united states, soviet union and great britian created a strong alliance
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There was tension amongst many alliances in ww2, for example: The united stated and Britain had tension over their different stances on colonialism.
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There was a war between Israel and Arab nations due to oil, the U.S backed Israel and the Soviet Union backed Arab states.
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There was a global economic recession many businesses slowed and oil companies made way less money.
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The first revolution against Batista was unsuccessful and the second one Fidel Castro attacked cuban government and was successful.
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The FLN was a political party in Algeria trying to gain them independence.
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The chinese launched an economic plan called the great leap forward.
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This plan was enforced to improve agriculture, industry, science and defense.