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The English Puritan Revolution, or Civil War, in some ways culturally the most radical of social upheavals, so annihilated religious artifacts created in England before it that they are preciously rare today; yet it affected the English language hardly at all, even temporarily.
This, too, caused major upheavals, and a million permanent refugees rushed the motherland, aggravating the shortage of housing and jobs.
By the 17th century, after repeated forays, infiltrations, and invasions, forces from Manchuria capitalized on domestic upheavals in China to take power in Beijing, almost by default.
The irony is that although Japan has continually triumphed over externally imposed adversity and upheavals, it seems unable to implement effective reforms to its own systems before problems reach crisis proportions.
But one of the greatest upheavals of the century is the liberation of the nerd.