Though informal, the Berlin Conference marked the beginning of Western European powers agreeing to divide the continent of Africa.

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When Kimpa Vita was told to sit on the floor by a Portuguese official, she commanded one of her attendants to kneel down and she sat on him instead.

King Alfonso wrote to the king of Portugal asking him to stop the slave trade out of Africa because slavery was not compatible with European values.

The young heir to the throne, Alexei, was diagnosed with hemophilia just months after his birth.

Nicholas’s great uncle suffered gruesome wounds from a bomb, creating in Nicholas a lifelong fear of assassination.  

Nicholas’s reaction to his father’s death and his own ascension to the throne was one of despair and a feeling that he was unprepared to rule.

Though she was the Russian tsarina, Empress Alexandra’s grandmother was the British Queen Elizabeth.

Pizarro was aided in his conquest of the Incas by De Soto’s book on his conquest of the Aztecs.

According to Diamond, Europeans were “superior conquerors” because they were the first to acquire guns, germs, and steel.