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Human Origins 200,000 Years Ago-3500 BCE |
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At least as important as Columbus's journey to America or the Apollo 11 Expedition The first humans arrive in Australia |
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Everything was so beautiful, so fresh Cave paintings at Altamira |
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The foundations of today's Europe were forged in the events of the late Ice Age The Big Freeze |
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A great civilization arose on the Anatolian plain The settlement at Catalhoyiik |
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Ancient Civilizations 6000 BCE-500 BC |
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To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land The Law Code of Hammurabi |
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All the lands have fallen prostrate beneath his sandals for eternity The temples of Abu Simbel |
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38 | (2) |
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Attachment is the root of suffering Siddhartha Gautama preaches Buddhism |
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40 | (2) |
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A clue to the existence of a system of picture-writing in the Greek lands The palace at Knossos |
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42 | (2) |
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In times of peace, sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who bury their sons The Persian Wars |
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Administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few Athenian democracy |
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There is nothing impossible to he who will try The conquests of Alexander the Great |
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If the Qin should ever get his way with the world, then the whole world will end up his prisoner The First Emperor unifies China |
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Thus perish all tyrants The assassination of Julius Caesar |
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By this sign conquer The Battle of Milvian Bridge |
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66 | (2) |
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The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken The Sack of Rome |
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68 | (2) |
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The Medieval World 500-1492 |
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Seek to enlarge the empire and make it more glorious Belisarius retakes Rome |
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Truth has come and falsehood has vanished Muhammad receives the divine revelation |
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A leader in whose shadow the Christian nation is at peace The crowning of Charlemagne |
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The ruler is wealthy but the state is destroyed The An Lushan revolt |
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A surge in spirit and an awakening in intelligence The founding of Baghdad |
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Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain The Viking raid on Lindisfarne |
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The Roman church has never erred The Investiture Controversy |
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A man destined to become master of the state Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun |
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That men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions The signing of the Magna Carta |
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The most potent man, as regards forces and lands and treasure, that exists in the world Kublai Khan conquers the Song |
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I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed Marco Polo reaches Shangdu |
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104 | (2) |
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Those who until now have been mercenaries for a few coins achieve eternal rewards The fall of Jerusalem |
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106 | (2) |
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The work of giants The construction of Angkor Wat |
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108 | (2) |
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He left no court emir nor royal office holder without the gift of a load of gold Mansa Musa's hajj to Mecca |
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110 | (2) |
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Give the sun the blood of enemies to drink The foundation of Tenochtitlan |
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Scarce the tenth person of any sort was left alive The outbreak of the Black Death in Europe |
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I have worked to discharge heaven's will Hongwu founds the Ming dynasty |
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Cast down the adversaries of my Christian people The fall of Granada |
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128 | (2) |
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I have newly devised 28 Letters King Sejong introduces a new script |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (6) |
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The Early Modern Era 1420-1795 |
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As my city falls, I shall fall with it The fall of Constantinople |
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Following the light of the sun we left the Old World Christopher Columbus reaches America |
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This line shall be considered as a perpetual mark and bound The Treaty of Tordesillas |
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148 | (4) |
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The ancients never raised their buildings so high The beginning of the Italian Renaissance |
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152 | (4) |
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War has become very different The Battle of Castillon |
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156 | (2) |
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As different from ours as day and night The Columbian Exchange |
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158 | (2) |
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My conscience is captive to the Word of God Martin Luther's 95 theses |
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He began war in Bohemia, which he subjugated and forced into his religion The Defenestration of Prague |
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164 | (6) |
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Royalty is a remedy For the spirit of rebellion The conquests of Akbar the Great |
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170 | (2) |
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They cherished a great hope and inward zeal The voyage of the Mayflower |
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172 | (2) |
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We will cut off his head with the crown upon it The execution of Charles I |
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174 | (2) |
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The very being of the plantations depends upon the supply of Negro servants The formation of the Royal African Company |
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There is no corner where one does not of talk shares The opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange |
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180 | (4) |
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After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet The Battle of Sekigahara |
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184 | (2) |
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Use barbarians to control barbarians The Revolt of the Three Feudatories |
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186 | (2) |
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I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy Newton publishes Principia |
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188 | (1) |
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As far as I think it possible for man to go The voyages of Captain Cook |
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189 | (1) |
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I am the state Louis XIV begins personal rule of France |
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190 | (1) |
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Don't forget your great guns, the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings The Battle of Quebec |
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191 | (1) |
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Assemble all the Knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth Diderot publishes the EncyclopSdie |
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192 | (4) |
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I built St. Petersburg as a window to let in the light of Europe The founding of St. Petersburg |
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196 | (2) |
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198 | (6) |
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Changing Societies 1776-1914 |
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal The signing of the Declaration of Independence |
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204 | (4) |
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Sire, it's a revolution The storming of the Bastille |
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208 | (6) |
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I must make of all the peoples of Europe one people, and of Paris the capital of the world The Battle of Waterloo |
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214 | (2) |
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Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate is to perish Bolivar establishes Gran Colombia |
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216 | (4) |
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Life without industry is guilt Stephenson's Rocket enters service |
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220 | (6) |
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You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know The Slave Trade Abolition Act |
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226 | (2) |
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Society was cut in two The 1848 revolutions |
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228 | (2) |
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This enterprise will return immense rewards The construction of the Suez Canal |
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230 | (6) |
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Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species |
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236 | (2) |
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Let us arm. Let us fight for our brothers The Expedition of the Thousand |
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238 | (4) |
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These sad scenes of death and sorrow, when are they to come to an end? The Siege of Lucknow |
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242 | (1) |
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Better to abolish serfdom from above, than to wait for it to abolish itself from below Russia emancipates the serfs |
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243 | (1) |
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth The Gettysburg Address |
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244 | (4) |
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Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent The California Gold Rush |
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248 | (2) |
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America is God's crucible, the greatest melting pot The opening of Ellis Island |
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250 | (2) |
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Enrich the country, strengthen the military The Meiji Restoration |
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252 | (2) |
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In my hand I wield the universe and the power to attack and kill The Second Opium War |
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254 | (2) |
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I ought to be jealous of the Eiffel Tower. She is more famous than I am The opening of the Eiffel Tower |
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256 | (4) |
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If I could, I would annex other planets The Berlin Conference |
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260 | (1) |
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science The Young Turk Revolution |
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260 | (2) |
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Deeds not words The death of Emily Davison |
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262 | (2) |
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264 | (6) |
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The Modern World 1914-Present |
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You often wish you were dead The Battle of Passchendaele |
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History will not forgive us if we do not assume power now The October Revolution |
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276 | (4) |
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This is not peace. This is an armistice for 20 years The Treaty of Versailles |
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280 | (1) |
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Death is the solution to all problems. No man-- no problem Stalin assumes power |
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281 | (1) |
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Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish The Wall Street Crash |
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282 | (2) |
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty The Reichstag Fire |
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284 | (2) |
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In starting and waging a war, it is not right that matters but victory Nazi invasion of Poland |
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286 | (8) |
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The Final Solution of the Jewish Question The Wannsee Conference |
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294 | (2) |
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All we did was fly and sleep The Berlin Airlift |
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296 | (2) |
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At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom Indian independence and partition |
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298 | (4) |
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The name of our state shall be Israel The establishment of Israel |
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302 | (2) |
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The Long March is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine The Long March |
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304 | (2) |
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Ghana, your beloved country, is free forever Nkrumah wins Ghanaian independence |
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306 | (2) |
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We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked The Cuban Missile Crisis |
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308 | (2) |
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People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite The launch of Sputnik |
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310 | (1) |
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I have a dream The March on Washington |
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311 | (1) |
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I am not going to lose Vietnam The Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
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312 | (2) |
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A revolution is not a bed of roses The Bay of Pigs invasion |
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314 | (2) |
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Scatter the old world, build the new The Cultural Revolution |
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316 | (1) |
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We shall defend it with our blood and strength, and we shall meet aggression with aggression and evil with evil The Suez Crisis |
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316 | (6) |
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The Iron Curtain is swept aside The fall of the Berlin Wall |
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322 | (2) |
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All power to the people The 1968 protests |
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324 | (1) |
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Never, never, and never again The release of Nelson Mandela |
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325 | (1) |
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Create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival or life The Siege of Sarajevo |
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326 | (1) |
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Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack The 9/11 attacks |
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327 | (1) |
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You affect the world by what you browse The launch of the first website |
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328 | (2) |
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A crisis that began in the mortgage markets of America has brought the world's financial system close to collapse The global financial crisis |
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330 | (4) |
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This is a day about our entire human family Global population exceeds 7 billion |
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334 | (6) |
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340 | (2) |
| Glossary |
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342 | (2) |
| Index |
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344 | (7) |
| Quote Attributions |
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351 | (1) |
| Acknowledgments |
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