China at the beginning of the twenty first century is not Bismarck s newly unified Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Afghanistan has never been a place any foreign army could stay for long. The British were burned there twice (1840 1, 1878 80).

The Ghibelline Visconti family was to retain power in Milan for a century and a half from the early 14th century until the middle of the 15th century.

The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.

The presence of Muslims in Latvia was first recorded in the early 19th century.

19th century In the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century, the Russian Navy had the third largest fleet in the world after Great Britain and France.

They were used primarily in the early 19th century, especially during the height of the canal building era in the 1830s in the United States.

The only significant period of balanced economic expansion was in the early nineteenth century.

This led to the invention of many machine tools in the early 19th century.

Galleys were eventually rendered obsolete by ocean going sailing ships, such as the Arabic caravel in the 13th century, the Chinese treasure ship in the early 15th century, and the Mediterranean man of war in the late 15th century.

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century.

The Pyu language still existed until the late 12th century.

This effect, called an urban heat island, was discovered in London in the early 1800 s.

However, none seem to have been noticed before the advent of the telescope in the early 17th century.

Until the early nineteenth century, for example, British politics was extraordinarily corrupt.

Sea levels are rising, but they have been rising at least since the early 1800 s.

Early in the 16th century Brescia was one of the wealthiest cities of Lombardy, but it never recovered from its sack by the French in 1512.

Allotment gardens came up in Germany in the early 19th century as a response to poverty and food insecurity.

Incorporated into the Ottoman empire in the early 16th century, by its end it formed part of the subdistrict of Akka.

The city reached the peak of its splendour in the early 17th century, under Spanish domination at the time it was one of the ten greatest cities in Europe.

The United Kingdom was the world s dominant economic power from the rise of industrialization in the early nineteenth century.

Italian opera was believed to have been founded in the early 17th century, in Italian cities such as Mantua and Venice.

The situation changed in the early 16th century, during the wars between Charles V and Francis I of France.

The Grand Duchy of Würzburg () was a German grand duchy centered on Würzburg existing in the early 19th century.

19th Century By the early 19th century, there were 52 London papers and over 100 other titles.

Of course, North Korea is not early nineteenth century France or the USSR of 1962.

The accident in the case of Belgium is usually placed in the early nineteenth century, the result of Napoleon s European empire collapsing and Dutch arrogance.

History Offside rules date back to codes of football developed at English public schools in the early nineteenth century.

Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.

In the early 19th century, the flattening of the earth ellipsoid was determined to be of the order of 1 300 (Delambre, Everest).

In Belgium, where the first universal banks had been established in the early nineteenth century, investment and commercial banking were also separated.

The earliest vaulted temples in Pagan date to the 11th century while the vaulting did not become widespread in India until the late 12th century.

I have studied many Chinese firms that flourished from the early nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. They all seem to have the following core features

In the early nineteenth century, David Ricardo considered the possibility that machines would replace labor Karl Marx followed him.

Ethiopia had between two and four million slaves in the early 20th century, out of a total population of about eleven million.

Khanate of Bukhara (or Khanate of Bukhoro) ( ) was a significant Turkic state in Central Asia from the second quarter of 16th century to the late 18th century.

The word Austria is a Latinisation of the German name and was first recorded in the 12th century.

By the second half the 13th century, Pagan had developed an enormous amount of cultivated lands.

It began as a small village of under 900 people mainly immigrated from Black Sea Region, but in the early 1950s.

The first style of Roman painting was practiced from the early 2nd century BC to the early or mid 1st century BC.

The Kingdom of England was a state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century, when it emerged following the unification of various Anglo Saxon kingdoms, until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form a unified Kingdom of Great Britain.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis (525) but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

Schleswig was a part of Denmark during the Viking Age, and became a Danish duchy in the 12th century.

One of the most influential revolutionary groups was the Carbonari (coalmongers), a secret organization formed in Southern Italy early in the 19th century.

History The idea of a bridge spanning Lake Pontchartrain dates back to the early 19th century and Bernard de Marigny, the founder of Mandeville.