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John Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement.
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The Seven Years War was the first global conflict. It had two main fronts. The first, in Europe, was the hostility between Prussia and Austria,
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In July of the following year, the mobs of Paris stormed the hated prison at the Bastille. Feeling that power was shifting to their side, the mob forced the imprisonment of Louis and his family.
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Napoleon who had written The Constitution of the Year VIII. That document secured Napoleon’s position as first Consul. Napoleon Bonaparte was now the most powerfull man in France and maybe even Europe.
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The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War.
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The Russo-Japanese War was a clash between two expanding empires. In some ways it was a very twentieth-century war, with large armies using automatic weapons.
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The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.
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A war between all of the most powerful nations also called the great war
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Peace treaty after world war one.
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It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.