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Battle of Stalingrad
Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943
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Apollo 11
First crewed Moon landing (1969)
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Battle of Albulena
1457 battle of the Ottoman–Albanian wars
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle of the Waterloo campaign
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese attack on the U.S.
Battle of Thermopylae
480 BC engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars
Disasters
Earthquakes, plagues, the days the world broke.
Black Death
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
HIV/AIDS
Spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection
The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
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September 11 attacks
2001 terror attacks in the U.S.
Titanic
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Ancient Egypt
Cradle of civilization in North Africa
Indus Valley Civilization
Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia
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Mesopotamia
Historical region of West Asia
Sumer
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC
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Ancient Greece
Greek civilization from 1200 BC to 600 AD
Aztec
Ethnic group of central Mexico and its civilization
Renaissance
European cultural period of the 14th to 17th centuries
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Protestant Reformation
16th-century movement in Western Christianity
Age of Enlightenment
European cultural movement
Buddhism
South Asian religion and philosophy
Feminism
Range of socio-political movements and ideologies
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Capitalism
Economic system based on private ownership
Inventions
The breakthroughs that changed everything.
Napoleon
French general and emperor (1769–1821)
Rembrandt
Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
René Descartes
French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650)
France
Country primarily in Western Europe
Voltaire
French writer and philosopher (1694–1778)
Egypt
Country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
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Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
South Africa
Country in Southern Africa
From Britain
The British Isles across the centuries.
From Italy
Rome, the Renaissance, and what followed.
