The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of plants‚ animals‚ food‚ and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492‚ when Christopher Columbus came to America‚ he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back with him to Europe. Columbus began the trade routes which had never been established between Europe and the Americas so his voyages initiated the interchange of plants between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres‚ which doubled the food crop resources available to people
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The period of 1492-1750 opened up new worlds and old worlds to a world of growing interdependence and connectivity. This era was home to the discovery and subsequent European colonization of the Americas and the African slave trade (the diaspora) both being remarkable and profound events in world history. The interactions focused on three regions: Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas. The communication expanded the economies of all three regions while damaging social structures of Africa and
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A.P. history Unit 4 Essays #18. Write your definition of democracy. Then use this to argue that Jefferson or Hamilton was the better spokesperson for democratic government in the 1790s. Democracy is a word that represents principles of freedom‚ chosen by citizens to improve their cities and lives. It is often when the people of an area are the primary source of political power and are represented by elected representatives. Democracy is a word that is still to this day‚ misused and
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The two main political parties in early America‚ the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans‚ fought many ideological and political battles from 1790 to 1810. Conflicts between these two parties grew out of their opposing ideologies the Democratic-Republicans supported states rights and a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution‚ whereas the Federalists favored a strong central government and a broader interpretation of the Constitution. However there are more than 3 major topics that I
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Western feminism. Nineteenth-century American feminists revered its author as their founding mother and read and spoke about her works everywhere. Wollstonecraft’s first major work‚ The Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)‚ was a response to Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke. Burke was one of many British writers and polemicists who entered the impassioned dialogue on the French Revolution‚ but his work was particularly exciting to people like Wollstonecraft and Thomas
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As a result of new contacts among Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas from 1492 to 1750‚ social and economic transformations occurred in the Atlantic world. There were several social changes that occurred in the Americas‚ Africa and Western Europe due to their contacts with the Atlantic world. These regions also underwent economic changes. By the mid-1700s‚ Western Europe was socially and economically dominating Africa and the Americas. Many social developments arose in the Americas‚ Western
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The modern world exists in a state of cultural‚ political‚ and economic globalization. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations‚ Portugal and Spain‚ pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world’s continents‚ thus beginning the process of globalization in which we all live today. This explains the two pioneering nations‚ their motivations‚ their actions‚ and the inevitable consequences of their colonization. The
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Homework #1 (each 4 points) 1. At his death in 1790‚ Benjamin Franklin left 1‚000 pounds each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia on the condition that they would not touch the money for 100 years. Boston’s bequest‚ which was equivalent to about $4‚600‚ had ballooned to $332‚000 by 1890. a. Determine the equivalent annual rate of return between 1790 and 1890. b. If the city of Boston had left this bequest in a fund earning 5% per year between 1890 and 1990‚ what would have been the value of
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Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) dove into progressive activity not long after his landing in New York from the West Indies in 1773. He served in the Continental Army and afterward in the Confederation Congress. Perpetually discontent with the Articles of Confederation‚ he was an early advocate of established change. A firm promoter of an in number‚ even blue-blooded‚ brought together government‚ he took an interest in the Constitutional Convention‚ composed a large number of The Federalist papers
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Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) has been a subject of much discussion among scholars‚ due to its unique history‚ cultural and intellectual achievements and values it espoused from 711 – 1492. However‚ what is usually overlooked is the contribution that Al-Andalus made to the Western world/New World and its bearing on it. As a result of which the history of this New World is viewed in isolation to that of Islamic Iberia’s and in doing so‚ the link and the movement of culture‚ ideas‚ values and knowledge
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