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Byzantium, later known as Constantinople, has been, throughout history, an important place for trade, thanks to its priviliged geographical location, between Europe and the Middle East, and between the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea, connected by the Strait of Bosphorus.
The effect so much trade in Byzantium was that the city became 1) wealthier, because of the amount of goods and services that reached the city, and 2) more politically powerful, because of the importance of the trade relations centered in and around Byzantium, not only for Byzantium itself, but also for other nations.
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The Soviet Union formed Warsaw Pact
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The United States strove to contain Soviet power by establishing 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO linked the United States, Denmark, Portugal, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Britain, France, and the Benelux countries. West Germany included in 1956, and Spain in 1982. In response to NATO, the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact, consisting of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its European satellites.
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In 1950 two key pieces of legislation, the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act were passed. These required that people be strictly classified by racial group, and that those classifications determine where they could live and work. ... Millions of people were dislocated, jailed, murdered and exiled.
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