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 BY THE BEGINNING OF 19TH CENTURY, ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD APECIALLY EUROPE HAD BEEN CHANGED WITH ECONOMIC & SOCIAL REVOLUTION, BUT RUSSIA WAS STILL LIVING IN THE OLD REGIME, UNDER CZAR KINGS  MISERABLE CONDITION OF PEASANTS   SMALL LAND HOLDINGS  UPPER CLASS OF THE SOCIETY HAD MANY CONCESSIONS  INDUSTRIALIZATION CAME VERY LATE IN RUSSIA, BUT MOST OF THE FACTORIES WERE OWNED BY FOREIGNERS KARL MARX SAID" WORKERS HAD NOTHING TO LOSE, BUT CHAINS"  CZAR NICHOLAS II STILL BELIEVER OF OLD IDEAS, DIVINE RIGHTS OF KING  CORRUPT CLERGY AND NOBILITY  INFLEXIBLE AND INEFFICIENT BUREAUCRACY  EMPIRE WAS VERY VAST, BUT HOLLOWNESS COULD BE SEEN  MANY PEASANT REBELLIONS TOOK PLACE, BUT CRUSHED SOON  MANY INTELLECTUALS EMERGED BY LAST QUARTER OF 19TH CEN  MANY WORKERS ORG WERE FORMED, MOST IMPORTANT WAS RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (GEORGE PLEKHANOV) - FOLLOWER OF MARX BUT LATER ON THIS PARTY GOT SPLIT ON THE QUESTION OF WHIC...

  First World War (World War I) is considered as one of the largest wars in history. The world’s great powers assembled in two opposing alliances: the  Allies  (British Empire, France and the Russian Empire) versus the  Central Powers  (Germany and Austria-Hungary). WWI lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. COURSE OF WAR : DAMAGE CAUSED BY THIS WAS HAD NO PRECEDENT IN HISTORY  IT WAS A TOTAL WAR, BCOZ ALL THE RESOURCES OF THE WARRING STATES WERE MOBILIZES, IT AFFECTED THE ECONOMY OF ENTIRE WORLD. FAMINES, EPIDEMICS KILLED EVEN MORE PEOPLE  MANY RIVALRIES AND CONFLICTS EXISTED  MOST OF THEM WERE SOLVED BY TREATIES AND PEACEFUL SETTLEMENTS ,  Asia and africa was already divided, so further conquest was only posible by war  Unificaion of Germany --> Germany became a strong nation, left behind Britain and france in terms of steel production, Germany built largest ship of the times, Imperator that shocked t...

 American Revolution was a political upheaval during which colonists in the Thirteen North American Colonies of Great Britain rejected the British monarchy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, won political independence and went on to form the United States of America.  The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations in American society, government and ways of thinking. The famous European explorers came from England, Spain, Italy, Portugal and France and made colonies in America The first 13 Colonies were established consisting of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay Colony (which included Maine), New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The story of the Colonization of America starts, and ends, at this point in time  By the mid-1700s, colonists had been living in America for nearly 150 yea...

  Colonialism is where one country physically exerts complete control over another country and Imperialism is formal or informal economic and political domination of one country over the other. 9/7/22 the practice of economic exploitation of less developed countries is called neo-colonialism.  1st phase  of colonization: began in 16th cen, with the colonization of Asia, Africa & America.   voyages of discovery  Spain occupied South &  Central America  Portugal occupied Brazil  England & France occupied North America  At that time only 1/5th of Africa(Mainly Coastal) - Slave trade  In Asia - Europeans came mainly for Trade  Portugese,Holland,England,France made trading posts  in asia  1st Phase of  colonization ended by 18th century   Because the Industrial Revolution increased the production capacity of Western states astronomically, there was an enormous hunger for raw materials to satisfy demands. T...