Because they had just helped defeat Britain's longtime rival, France, in the French and Indian War
· because they took pride in their English heritage
· because they enjoyed their rights and freedoms as Englishmen
Sputnik I was the world's first ever artificial satellite that launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. This marked the start of the "space age" which pushed the race between the US and the USSR in the field. Because of this "competition", many scientific discoveries were made to study and even travel to outer space.
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The account of the travels of the Muslim legal scholar Ibn Battuta in
the first half of the 14th century reveals the wide scope of the Muslim
world at that time.
