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480 B.C - The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks

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480 B.C - The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks

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Perhaps better known today as “that battle from the movie 300,” the Battle of Thermopylae was an epic, three-day face-off between a small group of Greek soldiers and the massive Persian Army in 480 B.C. It's little spoiler to say the Greeks lost.

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Scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. Islam started in Mecca, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, during the time of the prophet Muhammad's life. Today, the faith is spreading rapidly throughout the world.

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Reconquista it was considered a holy war similar to the Crusades because the Catholic Church wanted the Muslims removed from Europe. Historical Significance: It gave rise to several things, such as the Spanish Inquisition, the spread of jewish people throughout more of Europe, and the exploitation of the Americas.

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Chinese monks discovered the technology in the 9th century CE, during their quest for a life-extending elixir.

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Territorial expansion. Second, crusading played a major role in European territorial expansion. The First Crusade resulted in the formation of the crusader states in the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean), which were initially governed, and in small part populated, by settlers from Europe.

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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though not the first of its kind, earlier designs were restricted to East Asia, and Gutenberg's version was the first to spread across the world.

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The Spanish Inquisition was a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834. Its ostensible purpose was to combat heresy in Spain, but, in practice, it resulted in consolidating power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom. Its brutal methods led to widespread death and suffering.

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1492 - Columbus "Discovers" The Americans

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1492 - Columbus "Discovers" The Americans

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Columbus's journeys to the Americas opened the way for European countries to colonize and exploit those lands and their peoples.

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Resulted in the birth of agriculture

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The Industrial Revolution changed how people worked, the technologies available to them, and often where they lived.

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The need to preserve scarce natural resources made the production of synthetic alternatives a priority.

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Defining proposed spheres of influence and control in the Middle East should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire

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The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France.

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The treaty ends the first World War, it placed blame for the war on Germany, and it didn't do a good job of preventing future wars.

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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. Learn more about his rise to power.

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Holocaust education is history, literature, social studies, psychology, art, and so much more. By studying the Holocaust we learn the importance of speaking out against bigotry and indifference, promoting equity, and taking action.

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Allowed many countries to become self-sufficient as it relates to food production and helped them avoid food shortages and widespread hunger.

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Brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history.

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1945 - An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

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1945 - An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”

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It represents for Jews the restoration of their homeland after the centuries-long Diaspora that followed the demise of the Herodian kingdom in the 1st century ce.

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Years of violent internal protest, weakening white commitment, international economic and cultural sanctions, economic struggles, at the end of the Cold War

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Over 2.2 million people were displaced, making it, at the time, the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II

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1995 - The World Trade Organization is founded

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1995 - The World Trade Organization is founded

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The World Trade Organization is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that govern international trade.

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The social network TheFacebook.com launched in February 2004. Harvard students who signed up for the service could post photographs of themselves and personal information about their lives, such as their class schedules and clubs they belonged to.

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2016 - Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

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2016 - Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

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Cambridge Analytica, the embattled data firm that worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Thursday. The firm voluntarily submitted a petition to declare bankruptcy at the US Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York.