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used for many things such as hunting and shooting sports
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Domesticated on the grasslands of ukraine, southwest russia and west kazakhstan. They were used for riding and as a source of meat and milk.
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a series of conflicts between the achaemenid empire and the greek city-states
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an ancient greek war fought by the delian league by athens against the peloponnesian league by sparta.
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an ancient war engine that was invented in china. used to propel missiles and bombs
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a series of three wars fought between rome and carthage. at that time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place.
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a very long bow, roughly equal to the height of the user
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discovered by a chinese alchemist. the basis of almost every weapon.
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the crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the latin church in the medieval period. the most well known crusades are the campaign in the eastern mediterranean aimed at recovering teh holy land from muslim rule
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consists of a barrel, a handle, and sometimes a stock. first used in spain and and germany.
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a series of conflicts waged by the house of plantagenet, rulers of the kingdom of england, against the french valois, over the right to rule the kingdom of france.
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leonardo de vinci sketched a primitive design. in 1578, william borne drafted the first design for a submersible craft.
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spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, overthrew the aztec empire
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uses a flint striking ignition mechanism.
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a war fought primarily in central europe. one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements, but fro violence, famine, and plague.
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a series of civil wars and political machinations between parliamentarians and and royalists principally over the manner of england's government
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a series of major pitting the french empire and its allies. led by napoleon bonaparte against a fluctuating array of european formed in various coalitions. financed and usually led by the united kingdom
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samuel colt submitted a british patent. made the first production model on march 5, 1836.
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first successful machine gun was successful in the mid-19th century.
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steam propelled warship protected by iron or steel plates. developed as a result of vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells
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also known as the taiping civil war or taiping revolution, waged in china between the established manchu-led qing dynasty and the taiping heavenly kingdom
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a civil war fought between the north and south states of america. the first battle fought was the battle of fort sumter and the last battle fought was the battle of palmito ranch. the president during the war was abraham lincoln.
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an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-christian uprising that took place in china , toward the end of the qing dynasty
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also known as the first war or the great war. began after the assassination of the archduke franz ferdinand. fought between the central powers (germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire) and the allied powers (great britain, france russia, italy, romania, japan, and america.
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used in ww1. developed in france. on april 1, 1915 pilot roland garros took to the air in an airplane armed with a machine gun that fired through its propeller.
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first prototype was made in france but first to put a tank of the field was britain (little willie).
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a multi-party civil war in the former russian empire immediately after the two russian revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine russia's political future
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the manhattan project. developed during ww2 in a laboratory in berlin, germany by a nuclear physicist. only been used 2 times in war- both times by the united states against japan in ww2.
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adolf hitler was a big part of this war. presidents were franklin roosevelt and harry truman. fought between the axis powers (germany, italy, and japan) and the allied powers (great britain, the soviet union, the united states, and china). communism was a big deal.
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a gas operated 7.26x39mm assault rifle developed by the soviet union by mikhail kalashnikov.
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period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union with its satellite states, and the united states and their allies after world war 2. no weapons were used, unlike an actual war. this was just like a competition
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conducted its first nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb at eniwetok in the marshall islands
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a mass slaughter of tutsi, twa, and moderate hutu in rwanda and took place during the rwandan civil war.
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began in the dominican republic of the congo in august 1998, a little more than a year after the first congo war, and involved the same issues. the war officially ended when the transitional government of the dominican republic of the congo took power.
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designed by the air force research lab and used by the united states air force