I honestly think it was a moving period in American history. African Americans, though treated inhumanly, chose to respect the lives of others and held marches, and non-violent protests against white law. Meanwhile, you have a band of white Americans creating the Klu Klux Klan to invoke terror and use violence to scare the Colored Americans into doing what they want, to remain below them.
since the Ottoman Empire controlled the Bosporus Strait and had a strong economy, they helped interconnect Afroeurasia. the place was also a center of Islam, which attracted people from different parts of the world to the city of Istanbul.
<span>After World War II, the Marshall Plan helped countries in Western Europe with rebuilding their economies--since almost every country in Europe at this time had been devastated by the war. </span>