1 - Haiti. Haiti experienced a slave revolt that became the Haitian Revolution.
2 - The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.
3 - Simon Bolívar and Toussaint Louverture led independence revolts and revolutions against colonial powers. Bolívar was an important leader in the liberations of present-day Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Colombia. Louverture was an important general of the Haitian Revolution.
4 - It was Simon Bolívar.
5 - The French Revolution.
6 - China invented the compass in the period between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE during the Han dynasty.
7 - Realpolitik believes that the most important political objective is to guarantee the achievement of interests no matter what.
8 - The factory system replaced the domestic system.
9 - Germany was unified because of many factors but usually its leadership is credited to Otto von Bismarck.
10 - The Monroe Doctrine protected the Western Hemisphere (North, Central, and South Americas as well as surrounding waters).
11 - Napoleon Bonaparte who was an important French leader that sought to extend the French Revolution's ideals through Europe.
12 - The Congress of Vienna that happened in 1815. It was realized by conservative political leaders who wanted to restore old European boundaries changed by the Napoleonic Wars.
13 - The Infante Dom Henrique of Portugal, also known as Prince Henry the Navigator was an important sponsor of Portuguese maritime expansion. He helped to convince his dad the king to sponsor travels along the African continent to expand Portuguese trade.
14 - It is usually said that was the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan the first to circumnavigate the globe. That isn't entirely correct though because he died during the trip. It is more accurate to say that the only ship from his expedition that returned safely to Spain was the first group of people who circumnavigated the world.
15 - It was Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer that was looking for another way to India. He completed his trip in 1498.
16 - It was the African continent. During 400 hundred years between the 15th and 19th centuries, thousands of slaves were bought in Africa and transported to the Americas. As for gold where is present-day Ghana was called the Gold Coast because of its richness of the metal.
17 - The Columbian Exchange brought to the Americas sugar cane from the Indian Subcontinent, coffee from Africa and the Middle East, rice from Asia and Africa, grapes and citrus fruits from the Mediterranean. Europeans also brought to the Americas many diseases that the natives hadn't immunity against which lead to massive native deaths.
18 - Great Britain's population largely grew during the Industrial Revolution.
19 - it was the Dutch textile merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723). He was the first person to observe bacteria in the history of humanity.
20 - The wealth of nations was written by Adam Smith (1723-1790).
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