Well, there were tons of factors that generally made Late Middle Ages Europe a sucky place to live in.
For starters, there was The Black Death. An estimated half of the ENTIRE population died to this plague.
There were also lots of conflicts within territories, making everything extremely chaotic ON TOP of the fact that basically everyone was dying to a plague.
-T.B.
President Andrew Johnson had long wanted to dismiss the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was the only member of Johnson's cabinet who supported the Radical Republicans' program for reconstruction. On August 12, Johnson suspended Stanton. In his place, Johnson appointed the popular General Ulysses S. Grant Secretary of War.
Congress overruled Stanton's suspension and Grant resigned his position.
Ignoring Congress, Johnson formally dismissed Stanton on February 21, 1868
<span>On his way from the interior to the mouth of the Zambezi river, Livingstone discovered a huge waterfall named
Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke That Thunders". Later he renamed it Victoria Falls to honour Queen Victoria.</span>
