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A Global Cooling Down. PEAK: 1645-1715
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Complex empires and such
11th century renaissance men use study of antiquity to reinvigorate multiple fields of learning hoping to improve the moral fiber of modern times -
Early 1400s... 1433 withdrawal
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1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: divide the new world with Spain
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up to 1750--- massive transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases
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Byzantine Shrink, end of Roman Empire
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Catholics Reaffirmed doctrine
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Matteo Ricci arrives in china aiming chinese elite... exchange ideas and Christianity doesn't work in China because it requires people to abandon traditional culture...like crusade
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up to 1648
Catholic protestant conflict in Germany -
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The first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work... pumping water out of mines
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up to 1783
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BLAH IHUM SHITTY BLAH
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up to 1799
constitutional monarchy and social class maintenance -
Atlantic Slave trade peaked in late 1700s
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abolitionist movement
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up to 1858
Lin Zexu against Opium - > British are like... F U. And they do battle, and win more trade back. -
up to 1870 Italian state unite... Garibaldi invades sicily... victor emmanuel a constitutional monarch now unites Italy
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influential peoples like rockefeller, carnegie, vanderbilt, morgan
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up to 1938
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Period after first atom bomb detonation in 1945
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up to 1991 between USSR AND US.
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throughout 1900 women's rights, labor unions national liberation, gay liberation, civil rights
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BIG BOOM
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up to 1976
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A series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives between the 40s and 70s that increase agriculture production around the world beginning in the 60s
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Synthesis of the first complete gene by Har Gobind Khorana
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Islam has increasing influence in the world. Independence from colonial rule, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, repeated wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the rising price of oil—all of this focused global attention on the Islamic world in the
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BIG BOOM