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    HISTORY 1301 HANNA ROGERS AMERICA – A NARRATIVE HISTORY OUTLINE CHAPTER 3 Colonial ways of life * Four mass migrations from British Isles 1. Puritans (1630-1641) settles Massachusetts 2. Aristocrats settled Virginia 3. Quakers settled West jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Delaware 4. Celtic Britons and Scotch-Irish (1717-1775) settled backcountry and Appalachian Mountains. * Colonists spoke English and shared same faith but also had: 1. Distinct dialects 2. Distinct culture

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    Portugal- History of Exploration from 1480 AD - 1700 AD 1. Spain and Portugal--Unified but Declining: Spain was slowly being strangled to death by its own colonial empire abroad. Although Spain had amassed great wealth which resulted in a "golden age" for Spanish culture and the arts under Philip II (r. 1556-98)‚ much of that fortune was squandered on luxuries‚ the ill-conceived Armada‚ and the purchase of prestige to the point that the Spanish economy began to deteriorate by 1600. The Portuguese

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    The majority of the population in America would probably use the word “hunger” to describe their mid-afternoon craving for a candy bar or handful of potato chips. Most American’s do not recognize what true hunger is because it is not something that we are faced with every day (Sanchez & Swaminathan‚ 2005). The United States is fortunate enough to have had fewer than 6% of families with very low food security‚ according to Nord‚ Coleman-Jensen‚ Andrews and Carlson (2010) with the United States Department

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    Ecology is a scientific study and analyses of the interaction between organisms and their immediate environment. Therefore‚ ecological crisis has been considered as the misunderstanding that exists between the environment and living organism particularly‚ the human race. The major ecological crisis has been associated with the environmental pollution (Westra 122). Notably‚ race and ethnicity have been considered to be significant contributing factors to the ecological crisis than the economic income

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    World History “Well behaved women rarely make history.” This is a very well known quote that could have said by the famous Eleanor Roosevelt‚ first lady and wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Many people‚ including Eleanor Roosevelt‚ Anne Boleyn and Marilyn Monroe‚ could have said this quote. But‚ people have investigated and it has been proven that the person who originally said this quote was Laurel Thatcher Urich‚ historian of early America and

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    Slavery and the Making of America The series Slavery in the Making is a documentary based on the beginning of slavery‚ which then fell into a large increase in southern states‚ eventually tearing the Union apart and then bringing it back together. The series is broken up into 4 episodes The Downward Spiral‚ Liberty in the Air‚ Seeds of Destruction‚ and The Challenge of Freedom. The series starts off with the building up and beginning of the British Colonies‚ then it moves into explain more in

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    DO NOT USE THIS. I JUST DID THIS SO THAT I WOULD HAVE AN ACCOUNT Chapter One Vocabulary for World History AP 1. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys- a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: site of several ancient civilizations 2. Egypt in the Nile River- an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and the area from Cairo S to the Sudan (Upper Egypt). 3. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the

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    AP World History Study Guide for Exam One: “Foundations: Prehistory- 600 C.E” Terms/Ideas To Know: 1.Pastorialism: Branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. 2.Patrilineal: System in which one belongs to one’s father’s lineage. 3. Matrilineal: A societal system in which one belongs to one’s matriline or mother’s lineage. 4. Hominids: Primate of the family Hominidae‚ which Homo sapiens is the

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    Option 1 Greece: Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC 1. The Geographical Setting: 1.1 The Geographical Setting‚ Natural Features and Resources of Ancient Sparta: * Sparta situated in Eurotas Valley in the heart of Laconia - One of the most fertile plains in Ancient Greece. - Eurotas River flowed through the valley. -Mountain ranges surrounded the valley; >Eurotas Mt range to the west >Pernon Mt range to the East >Arcadian Mt range to the North - Varying climate

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    1. I predict that the women will soon melt. Roach is giving the reader hints on what her chapter might be about. 2. In this chapter Roach is describing the study of human decay. She states‚ “The people lying in the sun are dead. They are donated cadavers‚ helping‚ in their mute‚ fragrant way‚ to advance the science of criminal forensics. For the more you know about the dead bodies decay- the biological and chemical phases they go through‚ how long each phase lasts‚ how the environment affects these

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