They forced the commercialisation of agriculture with the growing of various cash crops and the raw materials for the industries in the Britain. With the strong political control, the British were able to monopolise the trade with India. They defeated their foreign rivals in trade so that there could be no competition.
Napoleon crowned emperor. In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head
Most Americans could not embrace Woodrow Wilson idea of a league of nations
<span>Muhammad ibn Musa
al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician who wrote an algebra textbook that was used as
the standard for centuries, presented the very first systematic solution of the
linear and quadratic equations in Arabic, and wrote about astronomy and
astrology. He was even known as one of the fathers of algebra.</span>
