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The African Diaspora refers to descendants of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas and those who underwent voluntary migration during the period of Atlantic SLave Trade.
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People became interested in new political and economic ideals. The intelectually elite became main contributers to new economic and political systems.
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A war in which colonial America strove to seperate themselves from Great Britian for their independence.
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The signing of the Declaration of INdependence signified the seperation from Great Britian and recognised America as their own.
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Simon Bolivar was the greatest leader of Latin America's freedom from Spain.
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Americans seperated themselves from British after the French and Indian war. The stamp act and Boston massacre were key events that caused colonists to revolt.
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The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by 38 of 41 delegates in Philadelphia.
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Penal colonies are seen as large scale prison farms in which prisoners are exiled to another place to seperate them from the general public.
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It began on 14 July 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille, solely for the purpose of reforming the government. During the Estates General, the Third estate broe off and declared themselves the National Assembly. Uprisings in Paris as well as foreign affairs led to the execution of Louis XVI and dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Haitian Revolution was a slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which led the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Haitian republic.
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The end was marked by Napoleon's coup on November 10th, 1799.
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The intelectually elite remained main contributers to economic and political systems. People weren't as interested to create new ideas and systems.
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The Haitian Revolution was fought primarily in Saint-Domingue.
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Napoleon was Emperor of the French. His legal reform was a major influence on civil law globally, but was best remembered for his part in the Naopleonic Wars.
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A conference of ambassadors of European states; discussion was to situate issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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After years of trying to overthrow Spain rule, it finally pays off, and Latin America has successfully gained independence.
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Two wars between China and Western countries; the first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain, and the second war followed an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship.
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The irish potato famine occured when Ireland's most important crop did not produce enough harvest during the summer.
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Imperialism was interconnected with industrialism and caused the growth of economic power and activity. People now looked to expand their power in other places, such as Africa and Asia.
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A massive civil war in southern China, against the ruling Qing Dynasty. It was led by Hong Xiuquan, who announced that he had received visions in which he beleived that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
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The chinese migrated to the US in search of gold and spread world of the riches.
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The Berlin Conference was a meeting that took place in which several countries gathered to divide Africa amongst themselves.
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A group known as the Boxers attempted to rid China of foreign influence by murdering thousands.
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A successfulrevolution began in hopes of overthrowing dictator Porfirio Díaz.
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People have now stopped looking for places to expand as the worlds economy grows.
