In the early 1900's, 6 million African Americans emigrated form the rural south of the US to the northeast, mid-west and west and thus began an urban existence in many of the cities in these areas so became important politically due to their numbers and their strong support of the civil rights movement later on.
<span> The French Protestants/Calvinists became to be widely known as the Huguenots
The English Calvinists were called Puritans.
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It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.
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The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system. New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.