While there were a number of social, political, and economic causes for the Sepoy Rebellion, the spark that lit it off was an unfounded rumor that the new British issued cartridge for their Enfield rifles was loaded with cow and pig fat, which offended the repressed Hindu and Muslim minorities.
El crecimiento de la civilización occidental se remonta a las inmensas contribuciones de los griegos en el campo de la política, el arte, la arquitectura, la literatura, el teatro, la filosofía, la ciencia y los deportes. Grecia es conocida como la cuna de la civilización occidental. La palabra "política" se deriva del griego polis
With the boom in industrialization in the late 1800s, the biggest cities got much bigger. This was more possible now because railroads could bring in the raw materials needed for industry and could take out the finished goods. ... Thus, industry and trade had a great impact on the growth of cities in this time.
Two nations in Southeast Asia that're archipelagos is Indochina, and the other one is Malay Archipelago.