The Catholic Church strongly opposed the spreading of the heliocentric theory because it meant that the holy book of Christianity, the Bible, was wrong, and that what they were propagating for centuries that the Earth was the center of the universe and that everything circles around our planet was a lie. This was going to make a big damage on the credibility of the church and the skepticism towards it would have grown more and more. The church, considering it had the power, was using all measures possible to stop this, so lots of scientists found themselves imprisoned, hanged, burned alive, killed brutally...
However, more than 70% of all immigrants reached New York City, which became known as the "Golden Door." Most immigrants arriving in New York came to the Castle Garden depot near the tip of Manhattan in the late 1800s.
As a result of the Boxer Rebellion, China was subjected to even greater humiliation. ... Overwhelmed by the Western military response, the Chinese were humiliated by having to pay reparations and allow concessions to the Western powers that effectively denied them control over their own country.
War Reparations is the best i can think of from WW2
Portugal was the first to send explorers in search of the all-water sea route
