French Emperor Napoleon's forces were strong enough to conquer and control the whole of mainland Europe, including the numerous German states. Napoleon reorganised Germany into 39 larger states. He also established the Confederation of the Rhine, a league of 16 German states.
Answer: 1. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, as the country entered its third year of deadly civil war. "All individuals kept as slaves" within the insurgent states "are, and henceforth shall be free," the declaration said.
2. The United States Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment (1865) effectively ended slavery. NARA The war destroyed the South, but it saved the Union, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
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Islam spread throughout the world through wars, invasions, but also, through the influence of merchants, so-called traders, who went long straight through Asia. Muhammad, even, was part of a caravan of traders.
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Prussia had a mainly German population. As a result, nationalism actually unified Prussia. Also, Prussia's army was by far the most powerful in Central Europe.
