Chapter 3: European Exploration and Colonization Trade Route to Asia in the 1400s European Trade With Asia Traders - people who get wealth by buying items from a group of people at a low price and selling those things to other people at higher prices. European countries use trade to gain wealth The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s England‚ Spain‚ France and Portugal. Kings and queens wanted to gain wealth - to build larger armies and navies to dominate other countries
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in the early 1880’s‚ King Leopold of Belgium was the first to colonize‚ or own‚ a private country in central Africa known as the Congo Free State‚ kicking off European imperialism. However‚ the way he managed and took over that region was controversial among European leaders such as Otto von Bismarck‚ who as a result of King Leopold’s actions‚ proposed for a conference to be held regarding the standards for claiming land. This conference was known as the Berlin Conference of 1884. From this event
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The Europeans were motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had many motives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him on his voyages. The most important motive was economic. The conquests of the Ottoman Turks had cut the Europeans off from trade with Asia. The overland trade routes were controlled by the Arab Muslims
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America. However‚ once the Spaniards arrived‚ they exploited forced labor used by Native American predecessors. Eventually this leads to African slave labor. Europeans sought economic gain and social mobility. Latin America became part of the world economy as a dependent region. Thus‚ the use of labor systems in Latin America from the 1750-1914 was a process with tremendous impact on the people and on the world in general. Slavery was based on using the enforced labor of other people . In the 1750
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especially ones originating from England‚ started migrating to this new‚ highly intriguing and unknown continent. The sudden migration has led to several historic controversies over the centuries – what was the chief incentive for the Europeans’ movement to colonial America? Although politics‚ religion‚ and the economy were all huge factors leading up to this historic occurrence‚ one influence rose above them all: economics. Money seemed to truly “make the world go ‘round”. The issues that spurred
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and harvest the crops‚ creating another chain reaction but with a positive spiral. This is an example of how food distribution plays a major role on famine and also how stable governments affect the food distribution in Africa. Most studies on the famine epidemic throughout Africa state that HIV/AIDS plays a major role in famine; this can be attributed to lack of health care in the continent which can be established if governments were established. Stable governments may also play a role in fighting
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At the time‚ revolutionaries were called ’Patriots’‚ ’Whigs’‚ ’Congress-men’‚ or ’Americans’. They included a full range of social and economic classes‚ but a unanimity regarding the need to defend the rights of Americans. After the war‚ Patriots such as George Washington‚ James Madison‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ and John Jay were deeply devoted to republicanism while also eager to build a rich and powerful nation‚ while Patriots such as Patrick Henry‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ and Thomas Jefferson
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so deadly‚ in history. New weapons and methods of war were used such as the tank‚ the submarine‚ machine guns‚ and trench warfare. All of the countries involved were hurt and the United States realized that it wanted to go back to its isolationist policies that George Washington had suggested in his farewell address. Woodrow Wilson’s idea to make a “league of nations” failed within his own country because the United States did not want to join it. “The League strikes a deadly blow at our constitutional
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Referencing: how to be polite to your sources You will remember that when you were doing research for your essay by means of interviews‚ reading library books and searching on the Internet‚ you were always told to keep records of your sources. Now you have come to the point where you are going to include the facts and ideas that you have obtained from places other than your own mind in your essay. This is called referencing and it entails the avoidance of what can be termed “ripping off”. It is
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the theory that the brain has a large unconscious realm. He identified three concepts of the personality. The first is the Id‚ otherwise known as the‚ “pleasure principle” because it is all self centered and based off what you desire. The second is the Ego‚ a rational and thoughtful decision maker‚ that functions on reality. The final concept is the Superego‚ which is strongly based off of one’s moral principle. The film Regarding Henry in 1991‚ by director Mike Nichols‚ starring Harrison Ford‚ an angry
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