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3 dni temu · Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny").
1 dzień temu · Throughout the 19th century, eastern settlers kept spilling over into the Mississippi valley and beyond, pushing the frontier farther westward. The Louisiana Purchase territory offered ample room to pioneers and those who came after.
3 dni temu · Arab incursions southward from Sindh were repulsed by the armies of Gurjara and Chalukya kingdoms, and further Islamic expansion was checked by the Rashtrakuta dynasty, which gained control of the region shortly after. Conquest of the Maghreb: 647–742
5 dni temu · Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century doctrine that rationalizes the expansion of the United States' borders and is the primary reason behind the country's westward expansion.
4 dni temu · Robert Greene's Bisbee '17 sees the present town meet its ugly past in a dual-timeline structure that blends historical reenactments of the 1917 Bisbee Deportation with contemporary interviews...
17 godz. temu · The English colonization of North America was but one chapter in the larger story of European expansion throughout the globe. The Portuguese, beginning with a voyage to Porto Santo off the coast of West Africa in 1418, were the first Europeans to promote overseas exploration and colonization.
3 dni temu · The First Crusade (1095-1102) was a military campaign by western European forces to recapture the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. Conceived by Pope Urban II following an appeal...
