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.
Answer: French colony of Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue used the French revolution as an inspiration to gain its own independence.
Its leaders François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the revolution against the slavery in Saint-Domingue.
The colony had been an important port in the Americas for goods and products (primary sugar) that flowed from France to Europe. It became the richest and most prosperous colony in the West Indies and gained independence.
THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY INTO NEW TERRITORIES....
Czar Nicholas II was executed by Bolshevik forces in July of 1918. The Bolsheviks were committed to the ideas of Karl Marx, and they believed that the working classes would free themselves from the economic and political control of the ruling class. They wanted to form a socialist society based on equality. The provisional government was never elected, and it chose to remain in World War I, despite the fact that the country was ill-equipped to fight against Germany. This made people more in favor of the revolution.