https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98 I took my time :) en-us 2022-04-27 12:35:42 UTC 2026-02-26 02:53:24 UTC hello@padlet.com dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160284846 ^{The Islamic world also influenced other aspects of medieval European culture, partly by original innovations made during the Islamic Golden Age, including various fields such as the arts, agriculture, alchemy, music, pottery, etc.Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE. Muslims regard Islam as a return to the original faith of the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.}]]> 2022-04-27 12:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160284846 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160286256 ^{The Reconquista dramatically decreased the population of the three main cities of the Moorish Caliphate - Granada, Cordoba, and Seville. This represents a very particular shock in the sense that these were cities with a vast majority of Muslim population, which was then replaced by Christian residents.The Reconquista (or "reconquest") was a period of Spanish history which lasted for 770 years, beginning with the Battle of Covadonga, which marked the first victory by Christian armed forces since the Islamic conquest of Iberia in 710 A.D.}]]> 2022-04-27 12:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160286256 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160287236 ^{Trade increase, whilst Europeans also brought back knowledge about plants, irrigation and the breeding of animals. Western Europeans brought back many goods, such as lemons, apricots, sugar, silk and cotton and spices used in cooking. Not all the Crusaders went home after fighting the Muslims.After four Crusades, the Muslims won control of the Holy Lands. However, the crusades resulted in increased trade in Europe and the development of towns.}]]> 2022-04-27 12:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160287236 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160586850 ^{Under the supreme council of the Spanish Inquisition were 14 local tribunals in Spain and several in the colonies; the tribunals in Mexico and Peru were particularly harsh. The Spanish Inquisition spread into Sicily in 1517, but efforts to set it up in Naples and Milan failed.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.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160586850 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160588385 ^{he Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first instalments in a long line of modern European – and subsequent American – meddling in the region. And, in providing a set of unrealistic and impossible promises to the Arabs, it led directly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In the Sykes-Picot agreement, concluded on May 19, 1916, France and Britain divided up the Arab territories of the former Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160588385 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160591656 ^{The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers}]]> 2022-04-27 15:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160591656 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160593765 ^{'The Depression was the main reason that Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.When Hindenburg died the following year, Hitler took the titles of führer, chancellor, and commander in chief of the army. He expanded the army tremendously, reintroduced conscription, and began developing a new air force—all violations of the Treaty of Versailles.Hitler's emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160593765 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160595033 ^{The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, including Romani people, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.} ]]> 2022-04-27 15:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160595033 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160596263 ^{The D-Day landings broke the Atlantic wall which was thought to be unbreakable and allowed the Allies to successfully complete the liberation of Western Europe. After the victory in Normandy, Paris was liberated in August 1944 as the Allies pushed slowly eastward and the Soviet Union moved toward Berlin as well.D-Day marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany's surrender. D-Day was a day that cost many lives on all sides of the conflict, changing not only the future of countries, but of families as well.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160596263 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160599368 ^{The Land of Israel, also known as the Holy Land or Palestine, is the birthplace of the Jewish people, the place where the final form of the Hebrew Bible is thought to have been compiled, and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity.Israel played a unique role during the Cold War. Unlike most countries, which functioned as satellites or proxies of the United States or the Soviet Union, it had to fend off enemies both directly on its borders and over the distant horizon.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160599368 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160602566 _{The internecine conflict between the Serb, Croat and Muslim communities is remembered worldwide for the horrific scenes of ethnic cleansing, concentration camps and mass graves. By the end of the war in 1995, more than 100,000 people had been killed and almost a million more injured and displaced.
Who was affected by the Bosnian War?}

_{In addition, an estimated 12,000–50,000 women were raped, mainly carried out by Serb forces, with most of the victims being Bosniak women.}

]]> 2022-04-27 15:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160602566 dwchesson https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160609607 ^{Regionally, the end of Apartheid ended much of Southern Africa's conflict, and allowed black-ruled states to unite in far greater cooperation for social and economic development. The intervention of South African troops (and mercenaries) throughout Africa was also greatly reduced. combination of internal and international resistance to apartheid helped dismantle the white supremacist regime. A combination of internal and international resistance to apartheid helped dismantle the white supremacist regime. The formal end of the apartheid government in South Africa was hard-won.}]]> 2022-04-27 15:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dwchesson/iq6vpkssnudx0o98/wish/2160609607