The effects of the global trade in silver were worldwide and linked the world in new and unprecedented ways.
Mecca and Medina.
The holiest shrine in Islam, the Kaaba, is located in Mecca, surrounded by the Sacred Mosque (<span>Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām). Mecca was the birthplace of Mohammad and the Sacred Mosque and shrine there are the direction toward which Muslims turn when doing their daily prayers. It is also the place to which they make pilgrimage as one of the five pillars of the faith.
Medina is where Mohammad built a following for the Islamic faith after learning there was a plot in Mecca to assassinate him. He later went back to Mecca with an army of 1500 converts to Islam and took control of his home city without bloodshed. A holy mosque is located in Medina also, called The Prophet's Mosque (</span><span>al-Masjid an-Nabawi). It is where Mohammad is buried.</span><span>
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The century saw significant advancements in the practice of medicine, mathematics, and physics; the development of biological taxonomy; a new understanding of magnetism and electricity; and the maturation of chemistry as a discipline, which established the foundations of modern chemistry.
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
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Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labour source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans.
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state laws to stand even when they contradict federal laws.
