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    started spreading. This affected claimed lives and survivors. As the next two centuries went by the European Nations explored America and established colonies. The colonies sometimes took land from Native Americans. Spain had a voyage from the Caribbean in Central and South America. France then established thirteen colonies along the mid atlantic coast of North America. Even though there are only thirteen colonies‚ there are only thirteen colonies there are an abundant types and kinds. The Virginia

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    millions) were transmitted from human to human‚ however; the Natives hadn’t built up any immunity to these zoonotic diseases because the only domestic animal in the Americas was the llama. There were not as many rats in the Americas either (rats spread the Plague). Also‚ the smallpox virus and other Old World viruses did not exist in the Americas like they did throughout Europe‚ Asia‚ and Africa‚ therefore they killed not only the weak‚ the young‚ and the old‚ but people in their

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    1. Film Information: The title of film we watched this week is Older than America. The lead actors and actresses are Adam Beach‚ Tantoo Cardinal‚ Bradley Cooper Georgina Lightning‚ Bradley Cooper‚ and Tantoo Cardinal. movie was released Oct 12‚ 2010 by the IFC Films studio. The length of the film is about one hundred minutes. The film genre is trying to expose the history with horror atmosphere. The director of the film is Georgina Lightning . 2. Brief summary: A woman’s haunting visions reveal

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    Jaime Morales History 215-AVN Berenberg 11/7/12 Was Liberalism good for Latin America? To truly identify if liberalism was good for Latin America‚ we must understand what liberalism means‚ where it came from‚ and how it started. What is liberalism? Liberalism is a political force that transpired during the 1600s and 1700s. For the most part‚ liberalism transpired in England and France. What did liberalism represent for Latin Americans during the 1850s and 1920s? Liberalism signified change

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    acute infectious diseases. So descendants of the hunter-gatherers who crossed from Siberia were familiar with the ancient persistent microbes we all inherited from our ape-like ancestors. The reason for the absence of crowd disease microbes in the Americas is probably quite straightforward; in the Old World these microbes

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    the British during King George’s rule. The French and Indian War lasted from 1754-1763. It has also been referred to as the Seven Years’ War. The war was between the colonies of British America and New France. In 1756‚ the war became a worldwide conflict. With the elimination of the French threat in North America‚ colonists felt that they could move into lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Indians living in the area no longer had control of it due to the French loss. This expansionism of

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    This was a quote from none other than Christopher Columbus‚ the “first” person who discovered America. This quote sums up the greatest interest of the Europeans of the time. Over the course of history‚ it shows that any two regions have their own similarities and differences. The Americas and East Asia are no exception. Both have their own similarities and differences no matter how you put it. The Americas and East Asia were two very different regions‚ but they share some similarities. The first similarity

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    the Transformation of North America” Colin G. Galloway Wei Tzu (Kaylin) Wang March 21‚ 2013 TTH- 12:30PM- 2:30PM Professor Mosby American History could not have written itself without the importance of our founding fathers. The transformation of North America in 1763 was an important year in American History because it was an ending of a long warfare in Europe and America. In the book called “The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the transformation of North America”‚ written by Colin G. Galloway

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    A New Miss America As Nina Davuluri took her first walk as the new Miss America on Sunday night‚ audience members and viewers at home showed their true colors. They exclaimed dismay over the crowning of the Indian-American beauty by expressing their views through a social media‚ especially Twitter. They attacked the former Miss New York through a variety of insults‚ including using racial slurs and dubbing her “Miss Al Qaeda” (@SHANN_Wow). The main accusation by social media users online is that

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    exploration to the Americas‚ there were many things that Europe lacks and many things that the Native Americans lacked. There were no domesticated animals in America before the English came‚ they relied the transporting of goods on Llamas‚ as they were the biggest animals on the land. There were scarcely any mammals left in America after the ice age. The summer of 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sent Columbus on the biggest and most monumental exploration that discovered the Americas. After Columbus’

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