Answer: The Khmer Rouge is the name which was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and by extension it was also given to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name had been coined in the 1950s by Norodom Sihanouk as a blanket term for the Cambodian left.
According to Pope Urban II, the best way to get people to unite is to give them a common enemy.
Pope Urban II pitched the Crusades as a religious duty with a side of fighting.
The Black Death was most likely spread through Western Europe by rats and their fleas.
The Black Death was the second major epidemic of its time. The first known epidemic of of the disease that also caused "The Black Death" was The Plague of Justinian.
A.) Northerners and Southerners disagreed over the results of the slavery vote.