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Nineteenth Century - Belgium had a colony in Africa: the belgian Congo. The Belgian leadership treated the native people of the Congo in an extremely brutal manner, most people were essentially slaves. Some workers were mutilated if they did not meet certain quotas, or if they "misbehaved".
Twentieth Century - France and Britain came to dominate several areas in the Middle East after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The French Mandate in particular, created the countries of Syria and the Lebanon.
The problem was that the borders of these countries were created without regard for ethnic and religious differences.
For this reason, modern Syria and Lebanon are very conflictive countries (Syria is in a civil war, Lebanon had a civil war from 1975 to 1990) because of that.
Twenty-first century - The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 under the false claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction hidden in its territory. While the U.S. army managed to depose the former dictator, Sadam Hussein, the invasion caused the deaths of thousands of American Soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and Iraq continues to be a unstable country up to this day.
<span>Walking Purchase was a 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape.</span>
<span>The main responsibility given to the Caliph in the first duty is to protect the entire faith of Islam, in a manner that represents the wishes of the very first Muslims. </span>
The U.S. Congress<span> passed the </span>Newlands Resolution<span> which annexed the </span>Republic of Hawaii<span> to the United States. Hawaii's territorial history includes a period from 1941 to 1944—during </span>World War II<span>—when the islands were placed under </span>martial law<span>. Civilian government was dissolved and a military governor was appointed.</span>
In a generation of use, the populations of Ohio<span>, Indiana, and Illinois grew from 783,635</span>
