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This was the earliest dynasty in China. Located in North China, beside the yellow river valley. This dynasty is known for advancing in military technology, math, artwork, and astrology, which they had even made their own calendar using astrology. These people had believed in human sacrifices and slavery if it was a captive. The Shang dynasty had fallen during the battle of Muye, which was between Shang and Zhou.
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Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions. The trading route used by European merchants who exchanged goods with Africans for slaves, shipped the slaves to the Americas, sold them and brought goods from the Americas back to Europe.
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This is the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines,the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. These technological changes introduced novel ways of working and living and fundamentally transformed society.The Industrial Revolution also influenced Romanticism, which was in part about escaping from modern realities. Realism became a cultural movement, a reaction to the idealism of Romanticism. (18th-19th C)
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced. (renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807) -
The Open Door Policy is the United States diplomatic policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China. The term “open door policy” refers to the proposition to keep trade in China open equally to trade with all countries, preventing any one nation from controlling trade in the region. The policy also called for powers to respect Chinese territorial integrity -
During World War 1's trench warfare's, on Christmas Eve both sides had put down their weapons and there was peace for the holidays. During this truce they ate dinner, drank together, and did anything with them. It's like they forgot that they were fighting. However, right after the holidays they went right back to fighting again. By both sides agreeing to a truce, it's like they weren't really invested with what they were even fighting for and about. -
This act, approved by the German government, gave Hitler unlimited power. This allowed him to be the "dictator" in Germany. He could enact new laws without having anyone veto it, he had no one in control of him for four years. The Enabling Act had led Hitler to where he was when the Holocuast had started, everyone was too afraid to tell him no and he soon had too much power, since everyone was scared of him and what he would do to them. This is an important event, since it led Hitler to power. -
The Nuremberg trials were 13 trials against the Nazis, that were held in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg,Germany. The Nazi party was being charged with crime against peace and humanity. Each of the four allied nations had brought two judges, one main and one alternate, to the trial of The Major War Criminals' so that trial had four different languages being spoken. While the other 12 trials just had the U.S. military conduct them. In total there were 185 people who were being put on trial.
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This was a competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. to see who could make it to space the fastest. They had this competition to show the whole world who is superior. In 1969 the U.S. had been able to put a man on the moon, after they did this, both countries backed off on space events.
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The North Vietnamese gunboats had attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin, to try to get back at the U.S. for their raids on the northern ports. However this attack from the North Vietnamese had caused the USS Maddox very little damage. The U.S. had tried to cover up their story, and say that the USS Maddox was just on patrol, however they later discovered that they were in cooperation with the South. -
This was an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, during the Gulf War. They had tried to get Iraq to withdraw, so after three days Kuwait had asked for military assistance from the US. When the US military came to help they had helped destroy Iraq’s air defense, communications networks, government buildings, arms, roads, etc. After 42 days of attacks, President George H.W. Bush had called a cease fire, by this time most of the Iraq soldiers had either fled or surrendered.