During the warring states period, china became a more unified country and thus lead to the first true chinese empire. The person that was responsible for ending the war was emperor Qin, which then lead to the Qin dynasty.
In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
France lost its mainland possessions to North America
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