Answer: On this day 100 years ago, British forces opened fire on the crowd attending a Gaelic football match in Dublin's Croke Park stadium. Fourteen people were killed or fatally wounded and dozens more were injured.
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The longitudinal lines represent the local time and the prime meridian represents GMT. India follows its local time which is known as IST (Indian Standard time). Every longitude line is 15o apart from each other and for every 15, there is a time lag of two hours.
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The Shang dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo) or Yin dynasty (Chinese: 殷代; pinyin: Yīn dài), according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley<span>in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.</span>
Italy's location made it easy for Roman ships to reach the other lands around the sea. The two main mountain ranges helped protect Rome and its large plains made it easier to farm the lands.
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Sumptuary laws
Explanation:
Sumptuary laws are laws designed to prevent a specific group of people from buying a specific type of goods: usually luxury goods.
After the deadly bubonic plague of 1348 to 1352, also known as the black plague, or the black death, peasants had more land available either for themselves, or to work as laborers, and their wages rose because of that. They could now afford some small luxuries like higher quality clothes.
This angered the nobility, who decided to pass sumptuary laws to prevent the peasants from buying certain type of goods.
This laws wer also passed in the cities, where the rich merchants and artisans were acquiring goods that the nobles thought should only be for them.
