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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
Romans tolerated Christians. There were political and military difficulties. Army generals dominated the emperorship , and the corruption was uncontrolled. The army had no real loyalty to Rome.
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1000
The Middle Ages (the dark ages)
In the Dark Ages, there was a religious struggle. Future historians use the definition "dark" simply to denote the fact that very little was known about that awful period of time. Usually the Dark Ages referred to the period of time guided in by the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+middle+ages+the+dark+ages&rlz=1CADEAG_enUS812US813&oq=the+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i59j69i60l3.1478j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on -
1291
Crusades
The first crusades were undisciplined hordes of French and German peasants with next to nothing amount of success. Then, the "Peoples" made it as far as Constantinople. The main crusades with a couple thousand soldiers were traveling east. After resting for 6 months, they set of for Jerusalem.
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The Age of Enlightenment
John Locke protected the displacement of a monarch who wouldn't defend the lives, liberties, and property of the English people. Jean Jacques Rousseau stated that society should be controlled by the "general will" of the people. Baron De Montesquieu claimed that the power shouldn't be concentrated in the hands of any single individual.
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The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a vibrant period of the European cultural artistic, political and scientific "rebirth" after the Middle Ages. The Renaissance was led by people including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Medici family.
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Protestant Reformation
The Reformation, was a 16th century religious and political challenge to papal authority. It was promoted by Martin Luther, King Henry VIII and others. This led to the Thirty Years War also the Counter- Reformation.
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French Revolution
The estates began their meeting at Versailles on May 5th, 1789 and quickly entered into a power struggle. The tension rapidly increased by extreme crop failures that led to a shortage of food.
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Industrial Revolution
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World War I
World War I was involved in, Germany, Austria-Hungary, also the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, US, France, Russia, Japan, and Italy. Recent military technology resulted in 9 million soldiers killed.
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World War II
World War II was the biggest war and bloodiest war in history. It involved more than 30 countries. Sparked from the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. The war lasted for 6 years until the Allies conquered the Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.
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NATO/ Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw treaty was a political and military alliance established on May 14th, 1955 between the Soviet Union and a lot of Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union formed the NATO, a collective security alliance concluded between the US, Canada, and Western European nations in 1949. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/warsaw-treaty -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The opening of the Berlin Wall made a lot of people upset and series and led to an unexpected rapid process of the Federal Republic of Germany. The wall was a kind of loophole where thousands of east German flee to the democratic west.
https://theconversation.com/world-politics-explainer-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-100812 -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
It started on Christmas day, 1991, the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev surprised the world, announcing the dissolution of the soviet Union and his resignation from its top post.
https://css.history.com/news/why-did-the-soviet-union-fall -
Cold War
The Cold War was a rivalry involving the US and the Soviet Union for decades. It resulted in anti-communist suspicions plus international accidents. It led to the two superpowers to the end of nuclear disaster.
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Creation of the European Union
The European Union is an unified trade and monetary body of 28 countries. It allows the free flow of goods and people. It doesn't allow random spot checks nor crime and drugs.
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-european-union-how-it-works-and-history-3306356
