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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.;January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century, and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. -
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman who served as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816, and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. He is best known mainly for his founding of modern Singapore and the Straits Settlements. -
War Between Mexico and the United States
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, -
Transformation in science and technology
The Second Industrial Revolution was another great leap forward in technology and society. -
Exploration and conquest during Imperialism
Before 1850 Africa, Asia and oceans were unknown to Europeans. The British and the French led expeditions that mapped out Africa -
The Imperialism
Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples. -
The Second Industrial Revolution started
The second Industrial Revolution is usually dated between 1870 and 1914, although a number of its char- acteristic events can be dated to the 1850s. It is, however, clear that the rapid rate of pathbreaking inventions (macroinventions) slowed down after 1825, and picked up steam again in the last third of the century. -
The Industrial Capitalism
Industrial capitalism saw the rapid development of the factory system of production, characterized by much more rigid. -
consequences of colonialism
Because the Industrial Revolution increased the production capacity of Western states astronomicall. -
Emigration during the Second Industrial Revolution
With the growth of factories and the demand for unskilled labor, immigrants, primarily young men in the working years. -
The empires affected by the Second Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution was the force behind this New Imperialism, as it created not only the need for Europe to expand, but the power to successfully take and profitably maintain so many colonies overseas. -
King Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through his own efforts, the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. -
The Telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. -
The Invention of the Elecricity
Long before any knowledge of electricity existed, people were aware of shocks from electric fish. Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE referred to these fish as the "Thunderer of the Nile", and described them as the "protectors" of all other fish. Electric fish were again reported millennia later by ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic naturalists and physicians. -
The New Imperialism
European states had been content, especiall in Africa and Asia, to set up a few trading post where there materials could be traded amoung. -
East África
Britian and Germany had become the chief rivals in East Africa. Germany came late to the ranks of the impearlist powers. -
Boer War Takes Place in South Africa
The Boer War was fought between the British and the Boers, who were Dutch settlers of South Africa -
The Titanic
Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster. -
The Art of the Second Industrial Revolution
Art of the Industrial Revolution tends to be pastoral, plein-aire, more often a reaction. We see the birth of Romanticism, Impressionism, and the Hudson River School dedicated to the majesty of nature.
