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In the early 19th century, the "Jallaba," a group of northern muslim traders mostly from the Ja'aliyyin and Danagla tribes of the Nile valley, came in increasing numbers to southern sudan, especially northern Bahr al-Gahazal, which became an important source of slaves.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of land by the United States from France. It was made up of about 828,000 square miles that was taken from the French territory of Louisiane in 1803.
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Football: First played Rutgers vs. Princeton
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In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad ibn Abdalla proclaimed himself the Mahdi, or the "expected one," and began a religious crusade to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan.
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President McKinley was assassinated
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•The Model T was introduced on Oct. 1, 1908. It had a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, reached a top speed of about 45 miles per hour, got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and weighed 1,200 pounds. It was the ninth of Henry Ford's production cars.
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In the 1920s a series of laws, the closed districts ordi8nances placed tight controls on access to the South, the Nuba Mountains, Darfur and southern blue nile, whose peoples-after"Pacification"- were now regarded as needing "protection."
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The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest
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in the first two decades of the 20th century the british conducted a "pacification" campaign in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains.
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In May 1969, a group of communist and socialist officers led by Colonel Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiri, seized power.
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Nimeiri was overthrown b/c of collapsing economy.
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Poverty in the Sudan is deeply entrenched and is largely rural. Poverty particularly affects farmers who practise rainfed agriculture. It is more widespread and deeper in rural areas in southern Sudan and in areas affected by conflict, drought and famine.
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China starts to take oil from Sudan and The UN can't help because China is stronger than the U.S.
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After decades of fighting for independence from the north, southern Sudan seceded on July 9, 2011, becoming the Republic of South Sudan. In January 2011, nearly 99 percent of the region’s voters had approved a split from northern Sudan in an internationally backed referendum.
