Historical Terminology

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Agreement which signing in 1497 divided the new world between the Spanish and Portuguese Empires	Treaty of Tordesillas
Policy of relaxing tensions between the Soviet Union and the West from 1969 to 1974	Détente
Topmost member of a column	Capital
A military union of a Roman Legion normally composed of 480 soldiers	Cohort
Naval blockade and foreign policy of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars against the United Kingdom	Continental System
Secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France which would partition the Ottoman Empire after the First World War	Sykes-Picot Agreement
Supporters of the Pope in the central and northern Italian city-states during the 12th and 13th century, rivals to the Ghibellines	Guelphs
Politically unstable countries with economies dependent on the exportation of products such as minerals	Banana Republic

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Former name of Benin	Dahomey
Title in the Mali Empire meaning sultan or king with the most famous being Musa I	Mansa
Ruling dynasty in China between 1368 and 1644 famous for its porcelain and trade expansions	Ming
Part of England between 865 until 954 where the Danes dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons	Danelaw
Soviet government agency in charge of the forced labor camps active under the reigns of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin	Gulag
Political event which restored the practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 from the Tokugawa Clan to Emperor Mutsuhito	Meiji Restoration
The government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military	Junta