https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7 en-us 2022-10-13 17:50:27 UTC 2022-12-13 18:34:32 UTC hello@padlet.com llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340761682 Location: Spain
The Roman Catholic Church experienced an increase in wealth, and the power of the Pope was elevated during the Crusades. ]]> 2022-10-14 17:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340761682 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340769230 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 to the will of God.]]> 2022-10-14 17:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340769230 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340774944 Location: Covadonga,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.]]> 2022-10-14 17:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340774944 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340781244 Location: Aragon Granada Sevilla Spain Valencia,The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas.]]> 2022-10-14 17:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340781244 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340789982 Location: Paris and London,The agreement provided a general understanding of British and French spheres of influence in the Middle East. The goal was to divide between them the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces ]]> 2022-10-14 17:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340789982 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340794362 Location: Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, France,The treaty forced Germany to surrender colonies in Africa, Asia and the Pacific; cede territory to other nations like France and Poland; reduce the size of its military; pay war reparations to the Allied countries; and accept guilt for the war.]]> 2022-10-14 17:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340794362 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340797265 Location: Germany,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.]]> 2022-10-14 17:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340797265 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340801247 Location: German-occupied Poland,Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites.]]> 2022-10-14 17:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340801247 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340805008  Location: Normandy, France,The Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis. A significant psychological blow, it also prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his Eastern Front against the advancing Soviets.]]> 2022-10-14 17:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340805008 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340810018 Location: Tel Aviv,On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. Ben-Gurion became Israel's first premier.]]> 2022-10-14 17:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340810018 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340817052 Location: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina came about as a result of the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A crisis emerged in Yugoslavia as a result of the weakening of the confederation system at the end of the Cold War.]]> 2022-10-14 17:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340817052 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340822536 Loction: South Africa, Apartheid sparked significant international and domestic opposition, resulting in some of the most influential global social movements of the 20th century. It was the target of frequent condemnation in the United Nations and brought about extensive arms and trade embargoes on South Africa.]]> 2022-10-14 17:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2340822536 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387122201 The Neolithic Revolution was viewed as a single event a sudden flash of genius that occurred in a single location, Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq, specifically the site of a realm known as Sumer, which dates back to about 4000 B.C.E.]]> 2022-11-16 18:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387122201 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387127568 The Green Revolution has not only impacted economics and advanced the rise of India, Mexico, the Philippines, and China on the world's stage, but also the environmental effects of food production in multiple ways.]]> 2022-11-16 18:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387127568 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387135465 gunpowder spread rapidly throughout Asia and Europe, possibly as a result of the Mongol conquests during the 13th century, with written formulas for it appearing in the Middle East between 1240 and 1280 in a treatise by Hasan al-Rammah, and in Europe by 1267 in the Opus Majus by Roger Bacon.]]> 2022-11-16 18:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387135465 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387141734  The first Industrial Revolution lasted from the mid-18th century to about 1830 and was mostly confined to Britain. The second Industrial Revolution lasted from the mid-19th century until the early 20th century and took place in Britain, continental Europe, North America, and Japan.]]> 2022-11-16 18:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387141734 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387148991 Plastic sticks around in the environment for ages, threatening wildlife and spreading toxins. Plastic also contributes to global warming. Almost all plastics are made from chemicals that come from the production of planet-warming fuels (gas, oil and even coal).]]> 2022-11-16 18:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387148991 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387151950
Columbus's journeys to the Americas opened the way for European countries to colonize and exploit those lands and their peoples. Trade was soon established between Europe and the Americas. Plants native to the Americas (such as potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco) were imported to Europe.]]> 2022-11-16 18:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387151950 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387155692 The Syrian Civil War has created the largest refugee population in the world, constituting over a third of the global refugee population.More than half of the country's people are displaced including 5.5 million refugees living primarily in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, and another 6.7 million internally displaced inside Syria.]]> 2022-11-16 19:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387155692 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387161507 Armstrong changed the course of history as the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, landing humanity on another celestial body for the very first time and fulfilling President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing humans on the Moon by the end of the decade and returning them safely to Earth.]]> 2022-11-16 19:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2387161507 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419572222 The WTO began life on 1 January 1995, but its trading system is half a century older. Since 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) had provided the rules for the system. (The second WTO ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in May 1998, included a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the system.)]]> 2022-12-13 17:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419572222 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419584972 The first printing press allowed for an assembly line-style production process that was much more efficient than pressing paper to ink by hand. For the first time in history, books could be mass-produced and at a fraction of the cost of conventional printing methods.German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process.]]> 2022-12-13 18:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419584972 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419588520 On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning.Facebook is a social networking website where users can post comments, share photographs, and post links to news or other interesting content on the web, chat live, and watch short-form video.]]> 2022-12-13 18:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419588520 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419595563 In May 2018, Cambridge Analytica filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Other advertising agencies have been implementing various forms of psychological targeting for years and Facebook had patented a similar technology in 2012.]]> 2022-12-13 18:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419595563 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419607482
The Battle of Thermopylae is celebrated as an example of heroic persistence against seemingly impossible odds. The Greek army consisted of about 7,000 men, while the Persian army may have had as many as 300,000. The Greeks were able to maintain their position for two days, until they were betrayed. An even smaller Greek fighting force then held off the Persians for another day as the main Greek army retreated.]]> 2022-12-13 18:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419607482 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419618252 The Battle of the Somme, which took place from July to November 1916, began as an Allied offensive against German forces along the Western Front of World War I, near the Somme River in France.aiming to wear down the French in a battle of attrition, the Germans attacked at Verdun. In order to assist their ally, the British launched their attack on the Somme earlier than planned.]]> 2022-12-13 18:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419618252 llwilliams7 https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419622527 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.”]]> 2022-12-13 18:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/llwilliams7/y6whzokwxgdvaks7/wish/2419622527