I believe it was 1862 when the transcontinental railroad became part of the Pacific Railroad Act. Right??
Hernán Cortés killed Montezuma and defeated the Aztecs
The peak of the Ottoman Empire was the year 1683, when it had conquered a big portion of Europe and almost reached Vienna. The fact that it did not manage to conquer Vienna was the beginning of its demise.
They invested in the inventors which prompted many people to take up inventing
The south was mainly agricultural, cultivating cotton in some form was most people's entire livelihood, creating sort of a cultural divide from the north. plus, the menial and arduous labour in the south was incredibly appealing for slave owners, but this didn't happen in the north where factories and mills were everywhere and staffed by non enslaved people. cotton united the two by the south growing it and the north turning it into textiles and other finished products. together they had quite a good system since each part was able to specialize
