World History Flashcards

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This British Company made treaties like the 1776 one of Purandar with the Maratha people of present day Maharashtra State

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British East India Company

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In Sept of 1993 Yitzhak Rabin unenthusiastically shook this foe’s hand to seal a peace deal on the White House lawn

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Yasser Arafat

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In 1945 Churchill, Truman and Stalin met in this city near Berlin to determine the structure of a post nazi Europe

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Potsdam

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Around 1300 this fabled city just north of the Niger River, a center of trade and learning became part of the Mali empire

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Timbuktu

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