Word: revolutionize
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American Revolution 46%
The war hastened the already simmering Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union and, hence, that protracted standoff between vast swatches of the planet that came to be called the cold war. It foretold the beginning of the end of European overseas expansion. And the U.S., against many...
All the landmark movements that have shaped the modern era -- from the ocean voyages of Columbus and Magellan to the Protestant Reformation and the print revolution, from the development of the scientific method to the Industrial Revolution -- were largely produced by those hated demons of American multiculturalists, dead white European...
Protestantism played a subsidiary role in yet another revolution that challenged the church: the emergence of capitalism. By the 14th century the roots of modern banking could be found in northern Italy, where Florence's gold coin (the florin) and Venice's (the ducat) became, in effect, international currencies. But...
By 1700 Galileo, Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and other scientists had clarified the principles by which machines work, an essential step in building ever better machines. Henceforth Western civilization's technological supremacy was beyond challenge. Mechanical invention led inexorably to another step in the West's commercial and political...