Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In comparison with Germany and Britain, the Austro-Hungarian economy lagged behind considerably, as sustained modernization had begun much later in Austria-Hungary. The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry of the world, after the United States, Germany, and Britain. [81]
The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
First Babylonian dynasty (1830 BC – 1531 BC), Hittites (1800 BC – 1178 BC) Kassites (1531 BC – 1135 BC), Mitanni (1500 BC – 1300 BC) Neo-Assyrian Empire (934 BC – 609 BC) Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC – 539 BC), Medes (678 BC – 549 BC) Imperial Period. Persian Empires (550 BC – 651 AD) Achaemenid Empire (550 BC – 330 BC)
The movement of large numbers of people was a major factor in the deadly Spanish flu pandemic. The causes of World War I included the rise of Germany and decline of the Ottoman Empire , which disturbed the long-standing balance of power in Europe, as well as economic competition between nations triggered by industrialisation and imperialism .
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods. Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times.
In 1800, only 3% of the world's population lived in cities, [150] compared to nearly 50% by the beginning of the 21st century. [151] Manchester had a population of 10,000 in 1717, but by 1911 it had burgeoned to 2.3 million.
The first well-known literate civilization in Europe was the Minoan civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. [ 6 ] The Minoans were replaced by the Mycenaean civilization which flourished during the period roughly between 1600 BC, when Helladic culture in ...