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Oct 20, 1450
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange (ended 1750) was the trade of crops, animals, objects and disease between the Old World and the New World after Christopher Columbus founded America in 1492. From the Americas to Europe, Asia and Africa things like corn, beans, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, pineapples, avocado, tobacco and etc were given. From Europe, Asia and Africa to the Americas things like wheat, sugar, rice, cattle, goats, grapes, pigs, measles, chicken pox and etc were give. -
Small Pox in Iceland(exact date unknown)
After the Columbian Exchange the New World and Old War had gained many new things. Unfortunately, disease had spread through the sea trade and the Indians had never seen such diseases. Because they had not been in contact with these diseases they had o time to build a defense for the diseases. Therefore many Indians and people where killed. An example of this was in 1707, where smallpox had first been shown in Iceland. In two years, 18,000 of the islands 50,000 inhabitants died of small pox. -
Medicine in IR
The Industrial Revolution was an increase in production by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy sources. Before the Industrial Revolution, everything was made by hand. The Industrial revolution made our beds, cars, toys ad houses but also improved on medicines. In smallpox, the IR taught us that there is no cure to smallpox but there is vaccines. Many medicines were modified and invented thanks to the Industrial Revolution. -
Utopian socialism
This "ism" started during the 1730's and went on into the early 20th century. Utopian socialism occurred much in the Industrial Revolution. It was a mora lview of the capitalisms which said that to surrender the means of production peacefully to the people. This mad communities and brought people together to live in peace. Utopian socialism also made a communal place and brought people together because of what they believe in. -
Alliances
As Utopian socialism gathered people in what they believed in so did alliances. Alliances brought countries together and had started the Great War in 1914 because the archduke was killed because the Black hand wanted to send a message to be free. Austria-Hungry had wanted to start a war with Serbia and Russia stepped in because of the alliance they had with Serbia. Germany then went to help Austria-Hungry followed by France with Russia. The Great War had started because of these alliances. -
Trenches
A new warfare had been invented from the start of World War 1. Much of the battles were fought above ground but not alot of people were surviving so they needed cover and place where they could rest. Thee trenches came in handy because they were 10 ft deep. Trenches became a big part of warfare but there were many dangerous disease that happened. -
The Big Push
The event that gave a pig push to the ending of the war was the Battle of Verdun, it was also the longest battle that had occurred in this war. The countries that were involved were Germany and Britain. In Verdun about 14 million shells were fired (200 each minute). The countries were losing so many men that the age for drafting had kept of widening and widening. At about July 1, 1916 623,907 UK causalities, 19,420 British were dead and 465,00 German causalities had happened. -
Attrition Warfare
Another big type of warfare that occurred a lot in the great war, other than trench warfare, was attrition warfare. Attrition warfare is a military strategy in which there are many attempts to win a war by tiring out the enemy by making their personal and their towns a main target. Attrition warfare was usually won by the country with the most resources. Many towns and civilians were put in the war. This occurred throughout the war. -
Treaty of Versailles
After many cities, civilians and buildings had been killed and burned; the Treaty of Versailles a peace treaty that ended World War I had been signed. It ended war between Germany and the Allies. The treaty ended exactly 5 years after the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Treaty made Germany at fault stating that they started the war, they should pay for the damages that they caused, the land would be taken away from them, given to other countries and etc.
