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    The role of religion in Europe During the fifteenth‚ sixteenth‚ and seventeenth centuries‚ religion played a major role in the efforts of the Europeans to explore and colonize the new world. The Reconquista became over a period of time a sacred mission to many of the Christian rulers and inhabitants of the peninsula. As soon as this period was finished‚ Spain started focusing on colonization and expansion. Some of the major events that happened during this period were the Portuguese attacks on

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    Slavery In Africa

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    Slavery in Africa has existed for many centuries. It began in the mid-fifteenth century. It depopulated many parts of Africa. The slave trade continued to grow. Multiple types of slavery existed throughout Africa during the slave trade. Before the nineteenth century‚ European slavers could not survive in the Africans’ rivalries. Using firearms controlled capturing slaves. Before Europeans arrived‚ Africa had a system of slave commerce. Muslim and Hindu merchants shipped slaves to ports around

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    Corruption in Africa

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    Corruption in Africa July 13‚ 2011 by: Salha Kaitesi Corruption in Africa can be overcome. Period. How? By having outstanding leaders in the community. This can only be achieved if we start at the grassroots level. In other words‚ with our children. The right upbringing for a child brings wonders to the child themselves‚ family‚ community‚ country and Africa at large. Today Africa is covered with corrupt leaders. Not a day goes by during which you don’t read something about how corrupt the continent

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    Religion in Africa

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    Megan Penney E110 10/24/10 Religion in Africa In Africa‚ before the white missionaries came‚ religion involved spiritually worshiping ancestors. Once these whites came though‚ western religion like Christianity was pressed onto the Africans. While some say that this pressure of western religion on the Africans was for their salvation‚ or even for power‚ it was really just pure ignorance on the side of the whites. The people who invaded Africa meant well at first and were supported by the government

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    Buddhism in East Asia

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    people affecting their culture. Buddhism started approximately in the 6th century BCE‚ starting with the birth of the Buddha in India. The religion then spread through Central Asia‚ East Asia‚ and Southeast Asia (Keown). Among many branches of Buddhism‚ Mahayana has been diffused from first west‚ north‚ and east throughout East Asia (Skilton). The fundamental principles of Mahayana are liberation from suffering and the belief in the existence of Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva is someone who achieved Nirvana

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    Political and economic factors were primarily responsible for bringing about western imperialism in Africa and Asia. While social factors were important‚ money and power were primarily at the root. The Berlin Conference was a meeting of major European powers with the express purpose of divvying up the African continent so that they‚ the Europeans‚ could make a major profit and gain new territories. This then opened new markets for trade for European manufacturers‚ who were already experiencing the

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    The expansion of Western Europe started with the Iberian phase. Spain and Portugal‚ the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a short-lived yet important role in European expansion. European expansion then turned to Western Europe. Western Europe consists of the Dutch‚ French‚ and British. While Western Europe was exploring new worlds overseas‚ the Russians were expanding westward across all of Eurasia. Religion played a major role in expansion for both the Portuguese and the Spanish due

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    History of West Africa

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    HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in

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    While democracy in the Asia and Pacific has been growing rapidly‚ maturity of its democracy is still being questioned. Maturity of democracy is determined by high quality of democracy through where three main areas are in place including law enforcement‚ economic development and consolidated democratic institutions. The problem with third wave of democracy (Huntington‚ 1991) is that the change of political system from authoritarian to democracy does not automatically follow with the change in

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    Stereotypes Of Africa

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    Africa In Hollywood movies‚ Africa is not depicted to be a safe or pleasant place to live and the people are stereotyped to be uncivilized or a warlord. In one of the scenes at the end of Independence Day‚ when we see that the invading army of aliens has finally been defeated by a collaborative effort by the entire world (but the film mostly focusses on the US)‚ and we get a montage of the wreckage on different continents. America gets a high-tech military base‚ Australia gets a modern city scape

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