It was "Russia" that was the last to industrialize, since while most of nations were going through the industrialization process, Russia was in the middle of various uprisings that eventually led to the Civil War of 1917.
Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he was tasked to write the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress in 1776, rendering entire generations of Americans slackers by comparison ever since. Jefferson at 33 boldly captured the will of a people frustrated with their absentee king and declared the equality of all men to be a truth powerful enough to abolish an unjust system of government; the rest of us are mostly trying to figure out how to set up our ETrade accounts.
The compass, the astrolabe (instrument used to measure latitude), and the rudder <span>all helped European explorers on their quest to find Asia and get rich by by </span><span>buying spices there and selling them in Europe to get a profit.
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By 1657, Nathaniel Batts had a house at the western end of Albemarle Sound on Salmon Creek. Batts was a fur trader, explorer, and Indian interpreter. He became the first recorded European to settle permanently in North Carolina in 1655.
It’s the first first one it requires Congress and the states to work together
