The Soviet Union intended to block all routes in and out of West Berlin for two reasons. They wanted to stop all people from escaping, and they also wanted to stop other countries, such as the US, from giving the West Berliners supplies.
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The Umayyad Emirate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Ottoman Empire all practiced Islam.
The Byzantine empire's state religion was Orthodoxy meanwhile its sisters empire, the Western Roman Empire, followed Catholicism (based on the year).
One major factor of Japan's economic success was its early encounter to the technology and trade of Europe.
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Cannons were used primarily as anti-infantry weapons until around 1374, when large cannons were recorded to have breached walls for the first time in Europe. Cannons featured prominently as siege weapons, and ever larger pieces appeared.
