The development of transportation in the 19th century is referred to by some historians as the "transportation revolution." This revolution was both a cause and a consequence of the market revolution.
President Woodrow Wilson became the world-renowned prophet of democratic peace, embodying morality in a world at war. He supported U.S. intervention in war settlements to ensure American leadership in peace negotiations.
The two centuries between the 15th and 17th centuries marked the age of the creation of vast overseas empires. The struggle for the seas and new territories divided Europe into two opposing camps.
In the 12th century, the kingdom, which had separated from Castile, had its capital in Lisbon. After the extinction of the legitimate male line of the Burgundy dynasty, an illegitimate member of the family established the "false Burgundy" dynasty at the end of the 14th century and began the conquest of Ceuta, Madeira, and the Azores.