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Vikings sailed across the Baltic sea http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=books&MenuItem=display&author=tappan&book=alfred&story=who
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Mongols invaded and ruled http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bataille_entre_mongols_%26_chinois_(1211).jpeg
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Ivan IV became czar and killed any opposed to him http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_the_Terrible_(cropped).JPG
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Michael Romanov became czar. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael-I-Romanov-Wedekind.jpg
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Serfdom became legal.
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Peter the Great became czar. He toured Europe and brought back some modernization. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_der-Grosse_1838_PR.jpg
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Russia expands by buying Finland, Poland, Alaska and San Francisco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Location_map_Alaska
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Napoleon invaded and was not successful because he came with 600,000 men and left with 10,000 men. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Napoleon_Bonaparte.jpg
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They made the Tran- Siberian rail road which was 4,500 miles long. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trans_siberian_railroad_small.png
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Riots due to food and coal shortages
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USSR came out of WWII the most powerful nation in Europe .
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The leader of the communist party Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorbachev_(cropped).jpg
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Berlin wall falls and the cold war ends.
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Failed coup (overthrow the government) Gorbachev resigned http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorbachev_(cropped).jpg
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A new president, Medvedev, is inaugurated http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medvedev-rif.jpg
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