They created trading posts along coasts of the Aegean Sea as well as the Mediterranean Sea in order to improve economic efficiency in different countries. Some Phoenicians worked as expert shipbuilders, developing new ships that could easily import and export goods through the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas.
<span>1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo.
2. </span><span>Russia mobilizes its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia. This move starts a chain reaction that leads to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great Powers, and inevitably to the outbreak of hostilities.
3. </span><span>Germany invades Belgium, beginning World War I.
4. </span><span>A German submarine sinks the passenger liner </span>Lusitania<span>. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
5. </span><span>The British employ the first tanks ever used in battle, at Delville Wood. Although they are useful at breaking through barbed wire and clearing a path for the infantry, tanks are still primitive and they fail to be the decisive weapon, as their designers thought they would be.
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About 23,000 men died, were wounded, or went missing over the course of the single-day battle.
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Social security to provide focus on the elderly, unemployed and children
