Unit 6 DBQ When thinking about the history of the world‚ one must always consider that merchants as well as trade have played an immerse role in shaping the world as it is today. They are responsible for many of the cross-cultural interactions that we have had in the past. Christianity and Islam‚ the two predominant religions of the world today‚ have both grown and spread through merchants and trade also. These two chief religions both have attitudes towards merchants and trade that have either developed
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Traditions and Encounters‚ AP Edition (Bentley)‚ 5th Edition Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania Chapter Outline I. Colliding worlds A. The Spanish Caribbean 1. Indigenous peoples were the Taino a. Lived in small villages under authority of chiefs b. Showed little resistance to European visitors 2. Columbus built the fort of Santo Domingo‚ capital of the Spanish Caribbean a. Taino conscripted to mine gold b. Encomiendas: land grants to Spanish settlers with total control over local people
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THE LAST VIKING The Viking era in European history may be said to run very roughly from about 775 A. D.‚ when the Norse longships suddenly burst on a startled world that had only the vaguest idea that Scandinavia even existed‚ until 1066 and the Battle of Stamford Bridge. The last true Viking chieftain and one of the most colorful characters in Viking history was King Harald Hardraada of Norway. In their pagan days the Norse practiced polygamy‚ which was one reason for the overcrowding which
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Throughout history‚ there is not an event that can relate to the one of the American Revolution. This revolution that took place in the Americas had many events that led to this revolution for the colonies. The events that slowly crept up to the much-needed revolution was in the period from 1750 to 1776. During this time‚ the struggling American colonies that were under control by the English and its parliament were dealing with different situations politically‚ socially and economically that led
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SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS PAGES 351-361 MORAL REFORM‚ ASYLUMS & PRISONS Social evil --- alcohol; prostitution ( common in port cities) Evangelical reformers approach o Rescue prostitutes o Offered salvation of religion‚ prayer & temporary shelter Poor rate of success Offered women domestic work which was low paying/restrictive Campaigns against prostitution organized by women o Continued throughout the 19th century Earliest‚ most effective anti-prostitution movement o Female
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Prescribed Subject 2: The emergence and development of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ 1946 to 1964 1. (a) According to Source A‚ Mao wanted to start a technological revolution in China for several reasons. Firstly‚ he believed that after the anti-feudal land reform‚ agricultural co-operativization‚ and the socialist reconstruction of private industries‚ commerce‚ and handicrafts‚ a technological revolution would be the logical next step. Confirming this state of mind is Mao’s quote
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Mussolini Benito Mussolini appears to stride through 20th-century Italian history like a buffoon‚ a fascist dictator whose ludicrous posing was dwarfed by the incalculably more sinister nature of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Young socialist Mussolini was born in 1883. As a young man‚ he was a rousing orator‚ a tireless journalist – and a socialist. In 1912‚ after years of hack journalism and self-promotion‚ he was appointed editor of the Socialist Party newspaper Avanti!‚ preaching left wing revolution
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Hitler and Mussolini were very similar since both shared the same motives for gaining power and the Fascist belief in absolute control by one supreme leader. After World War I‚ Italy was upset that they didn’t get the land they were promised and Germany was angered by the reparations that they faced. In Benito Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism he wrote‚ “The Italian people will rise again to create a new Roman Empire‚ and once again the Italian people will lead the world.” Hitler hoped to develop
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Benito Mussolini‚ What is Fascism? Italy faced serious postwar economic problems which became known as "The Two Red Years". It faced inflation problems due to government printing money to pay for weapons‚ workers on strike‚ arms and shipbuilders became bankrupt due to lack of government order‚ and unemployment rose to two million as returning soldiers searched for work. Benito Mussolini‚ upon being removed from the Socialist Party for advocating Italy ’s participation in battle‚ organized the
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