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Discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus – Posted by Nicolas De Santis on 27/5/10
1963- Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech advocates global racial equality.
1947- Invention of Rocket Propulsion, allows space travel and introduction of
satellites.
1517 – 1648 – Protestant Reformation of the Catholic church fuels ideas of liberalism, intensifying the cultural and economic flows between Europe, Africa and the Americas.