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    Geographical Discoveries

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    Great geographical discoveries - a popular term geographical discoveries made at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries‚ in particular: circumnavigation Cape of Good Hope by Diaz (1488)‚ the discovery of America by Columbus (1492)‚ and then the conquest‚ trip [[Vasco da Gama | to India (1498) and the first trip around the world‚ Magellan (1519-1522). These events triggered a further voyages of discovery and contributed to a significant widening of the geographical horizon of Europeans

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    Geographical Indications

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    EVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS WORLD WIDE Subject: Intellectual Property Law and Management MBLA 303 Submitted to: Ms. Barkha Bhalla Submitted by: Ms. Mansi Bahal 2nd Year- 3rd Semester Roll no. 06 NALSAR University of Law‚ Justice City‚ Shameerpet‚ R.R. District -500078. Table of Contents Introduction3 Overview3 Research Objectives5 Research Methodology…………………………………….………………………………5 Limitations of the Research……………………

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    Economic and Political Terms

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    imports and exports made between one countries and the other countries that it trades with.  Balance of trade: The difference in value over a period of time between a country’s imports and exports.  Barter system: System where there is an exchange of goods without involving money.  Base year: In the construction of an index‚ the year from which the weights assigned to the different components of the index is drawn. It is conventional to set the value of an index in its base year equal to 100

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    Economic vs. Religious

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    Catholic and Puritan powers made religious concerns the primary cause of settling the British colonies; after the intensity of the British economic problems died down‚ the settling of the British colonies for economic concerns further died down; as a result‚ the statement that economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns is somewhat invalid. As the civil wars commenced‚ colonies were founded as a haven for religious persecution back in England

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    INTRODUCTION Since independence‚ West Africa states have maintained close political and economic ties with their former colonial powers. During the colonial era‚ the colonial administrators successfully imposed and impressed their alien pattern and orientation in the socio¬-political and economic affairs of West African countries. West African economic affairs were distorted to an extent that two decades after independence‚ all the countries are very much dependent economically on their former colonial

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    Were the Crusades Political or Religious? The Middle Ages was a religious age that was dominated by papacy. The Crusades show the religiousness of the Europeans in the Middle Ages‚ though we question ourselves if that was their only motive: Religion. People fought the Muslims‚ Seljuk Turks‚ to regain the Middle East in the name of "crusaders" which means "marked with the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe’s waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands

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    Change over Time: Africa

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    West Africa‚ a striving center of trade and commerce was born in the Post Classical world. The society was morphed by the way people traded. Between 600 and 1450‚ West Africa went from a society dominated by the beliefs of Animism and trading with east to one in which Islam influenced their culture and traded with the dar-al-Islam. The dominance of their own culture and its influence on their religion‚ and the production of bananas‚ however‚ remained constant. Before the introduction of Islam

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    In each of the following questions‚ from the given alternative words‚ select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word: 1. STIMULATION (A) STATION (B) NATION (C) MOTION (D) MOUTH Answer: (D) Explanation: There is no ?H? letter in the given word. Therefore‚ the word MOUTH cannot be formed. 2. Which letter in the word ?Vertex? should be changed to mean spiral movement ? (A) 1st (B) 2nd (C) 4th (D) Last Answer: (B) 3. If MONKO is coded as 57637‚ then how

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    Difference _____ = Historical Fact West Africa vs. Swahili City States From the 1st Century to the 15th Century‚ two specific African civilizations were rising up; these two civilizations consisted of West Africa consisting of Ghana‚ Mali‚ and Songhai and of the Swahili city states. When looking back at history‚ we can infer that West Africa and the Swahili city states contained many key events in history that set forward to make what we know present Africa to be today. Unlike its neighbors‚ these

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    INVESTING IN SOUTH AFRICA The economic environment‚ Prof. André Roux | Danny Jansen‚ EMBA10 Table of content Perception or reality? .............................................................................................................................. 2 the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act............................................................................. 4 Other legal boundaries ..................................................................................

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