The idea of the us gaining all land from one seaboard to the other is called manifest destiny the us gained these lands through several different purchases, annexations, and agreements such as the annexation of texas the treaty to give the us land in oregon below the 49th parallel and so forth.
The end of the cold war made the reunification of Germany possible. The unification in 1990 involved, the German Democratic Republic which became part of Federal Republic of Germany after Berlin reunited to a single city.
The fall of the Berlin wall, Helmut Kohl's initiative, and the international corporation between Soviet Union, Western Europe, and the United States made it possible for the unification of Germany, which further encouraged peaceful negotiation that brought the cold war to an end.
A northeaster is a storm or wind blowing from the northeast, especially in New England.
The Muslim Empire comprised the timespan in which three different Caliphates ruled:
- The Rashidun Caliphate (632–661) which supposed the start of the Muslim Empire, established after the death of the Profet Muhammad. It was a period characterized by a quick military expansion, which took control over the following territories: the Arabian Peninsula including the Levant, the Transcaucasus region in the North, the Northern Africa area from Egypt to the current territory of Tunisia as the Western border and, finally, the Iranian plateau including parts of Central Asia and South Asia as the Eastern limit.
- The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750). More conquest were achieved, and to the formerly mentioned ones, the following territories were annexed: the Transoxiana, Sindh, the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula (named Al-Andalus).
- The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258), was the third caliphate and established its central government in Kufa, located in current Iraq. In 762 the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad. The caliphate started to lost authority in the Western regions (Al-Andalus and Maghreb for example) but also reinforced control over territories on the East, for instance, the Mesopotamian domain.