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1. Oleg, a Varangian, unites several cities into Kievan Rus.
2. Batu Khan and his skilled Asian horsemen make Russia part of the Mongol Empire.
3. Peter the Great modernizes Russia and founds Saint Petersburg.
4. The October Revolution brings Marxist Vladimir Lenin to power.
5. Mikhail Gorbachev introduces perestroika reforms to overhaul the Soviet Union.
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<span>Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe, as well as the most eligible bride after she inherited the title of "Duchess of Aquitaine, France. She first married King Louis of France and became Queen Consort of France. This marriage was annulled after 15 years because she did not provide King Louis of France with a son. She then married King Henry II of England. She was influential in ruling England and France. King Henry and Eleanor ruled over an area from the Pyrenees mountains in the south to the Cheviots mountains in the north. Their children would rule England and parts of Europe for the next 330 years. </span>
Answer: In the mid-1800s women began to seek support from others to pass legislation that would give them the right to vote.
The women's suffrage movement involved traveling to give lectures, writing the government, lobbying the government, and holding civil disobedience events such as hunger strikes, vigils, parades to bring attention to the cause.
Supporters of the women's suffrage movement were sometimes jailed and abused for their participation.
New Jersey temporarily granted unwed women the right to vote back in 1797, when it adopted its constitution that gave all inhabitants who owned fifty pounds of property the right to vote. In 1807 the law changed and only free, white males were allowed to vote.
In 1868 women in Wyoming were given the right to vote if they were over the age of 21. Wyoming was almost denied statehood because of this law but the state refused to budge. Wyoming became the 44th U.S. state in 1890, 30 years before women in the rest of the states would be allowed to vote.
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