´´The M.A.I.N. causes of world war 1 were Militarism, secret Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism .The driving force was Nationalism ... The igniting incident of the ´´Great WAR´´ was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungerian Empire, in Bosnia by a serbian nationalist.
The protestant reformation divided western Christianity though it has been divided before
During 1200-1450, Mali, a big empire in west Africa flourished. Timbuktu, a city in this empire had a huge library with tens of thousands of books. This library provided their empire a lot of wealth. During 1400-1750, during the Atlantic slave trade, millions of African people, mostly men and some women, were transported to South America via the Atlantic Ocean. The rulers of West Africa negotiated with European rulers to send off their Africans. In exchange, the Europeans gave them silver which boosted the wealth in their economy.
