The land's sharp features seemed to be
10 The Century's corpse outleant,
11 His crypt the cloudy canopy,
12 The wind his death-lament.
13 The ancient pulse of germ and birth
14 Was shrunken hard and dry,
15 And every spirit upon earth
16 Seemed fervorless as I.
17 At once a voice arose among
18 The bleak twigs overhead
19 In a full-hearted
The Slovak Republic Key Facts
Became an independent state on 1 January 1993
after Czechoslovakia spilt into its two constituent parts.
Becomes European Union member since 2004
Currency changed in 2009 (Slovak Koruna -> Euro)
86% Slovak population.
Hungarians, 10% the largest minority
Long history of invasions
The Slovak Republic Culture
Tradition
the administration of Malaya under a single crown colony called the Malayan Union met with strong opposition from the Malays, who opposed the weakening of the Malay rulers and the granting of citizenship to the ethnic Chinese. The Malayan Union, established in 1946 and consisting of all the British possessions inthe Malay peninsula with the exception of Singapore, was dissolved in 1948 and repla
the First important American colony
- The Hawaiian islands were the next to fall Americans had made pearl harbor into naval station in 1887. American settlers gained control of sugar industry inthe islands.
Acquiring the Philippine islands
The Filipino hoped for independence, but the Americans refused to grant it.
French expansion in southeast Asia
A union of French Indochina.
★ Basic history of Russia
Expansion of the Russian State(14-15th cent)
Reach its Greatest Size (1914, before WW1)
The Great Russian Revolution(1917 Russian monarchy was overthrown by Bolsheviks)
World First Communist State (1922, theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed )
USSR Broke Up(1991)
B. Political economy
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