They had to defend themselves against raids by other clans who wanted water, livestock, or food supplies.
After the Soviet Union’s collapse, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. The lack of a strong leadership after General Tito’s death and the ethnic segregation caused by newly emerged political parties almost lead the country to its destruction.
The Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 100,000 people (most of them Bosnian Muslim). One of the biggest act of genocide in European history.
The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, it would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.
<span>This was controversial between the Southern and Northern states, because this allowed the Union to always have more representatives in the House of Representatives and would make sure that the Union could control the Southern states and vote against anything will slavery. </span>