about to sail to the New World from Spain on your old reliable ship. You wonder what you are going to find and what you are going to do if you meet any Native Americans. Then you think about the past‚ and in the past what has happened when cultures collide to get you to that day. So what happens when cultures collide? Is it always battles? do new cultures always form? The advances of technology help reach new cultures like how the compass and caravel helped get to the New World. Then when Christopher
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The Black Death The Black Death almost wiped out all of Western Europe. The Black Death was carried by flea infested rat. These rats came from ships coming from Asia. The rats thrived in the filthy streets of Western Europe. The Black Death killed 1/3 of Western Europe’s population. Although the Black Death devastated Western Europe it also had many benefits such as higher wages for peasants‚ job opportunities for women‚ and innovations in the work place. One of the benefits of the Black
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Details of traditional Igbo government and social structure varied from place to place throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ but its characteristic nature remained the same. The basic unit of Igbo life was the village group‚ and the most universal institution was the role of the family head. This was usually the oldest man of the oldest surviving generation. His role primarily involved settling family disputes‚ and because he controlled the channel of communication with the all-important
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Africa is‚ surprisingly‚ an underdeveloped country‚ despite her abundant natural resources.Colonialism came in disguise of civilization and in the process destroyed the core values of Africa.The traditional system of education was undermined to perpetuate western education which is alien to African culture.The trade and economic system was quite exploitative and was capitalist oriented.Tactically‚ the European colonialists explored and exploited both human and material resources of Africa to develop
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The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the 1700s. It is defined as the process of change from an agrarian‚ handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. This means a shift from the home to the factory‚ from the country to the city‚ from human or animal power to engines powered by fossil fuels (coal and‚ later‚ oil). The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. The industrial
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The Columbian Exchange had dramatic demographic effects in both the Americas and Europe. One major factoring concerning both of the two regions was the spread of new diseases causing a decline in the growth of both the America’s and Europe’s population. However‚ the impact tended to be much more negative for the Americans. Through the Columbian exchange the Europeans brought multiple new diseases to the Native American population‚ including small pox. The coming of these diseases had such a great
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both the New World across the Atlantic Ocean‚ and the much closer continent of Africa. In both Africa and the New World‚ Europeans had similar influences in that they negatively affected the natives in their search for riches such as spices and precious metals‚ and wherever they traveled they would spread Christianity to the natives. One example of this is when Cortes arrived in the Aztec empire he demanded they convert to Christianity‚ and when the Portuguese began colonizing east Africa it didn’t
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During the period from 1450 to 1750‚ western Europe targeted on an era of distant places exploration and monetary enlargement that converted society. By 1450‚ Europe had recovered from intense contraction of the 14th century‚ produced by plague and marginal agriculture‚ and become resuming the economic growth that were the sample inside the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. This new length of increase‚ but‚ become no mere extension of the sooner one‚ however a thorough departure from medieval monetary
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5 Section 4 6 Section 5 7 Section 6 8 Section 7 9 Section 8 9 Section 9 10 Section 10 10 Section 11 11 Conclusion 11 References 13 Appendices 14 Summary In this report‚ as a member of the government of the nation on the periphery of Europe currently‚ I will recommend 11 issues related to the free trade‚ the balance of payment‚ single currency and etc. And I will give every of them my understanding and analysis to figure out why our nation should choose to join EU and what could we get
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Kabbalist Prior to the Expulsion from Spain in 1492 JUS 435 Introduction Rabbinic Judaism‚ a dynamic and evolving ethical monotheistic religious tradition‚ during the Middle Ages‚ would confront circumstances conducive to renewed encounters with Hellenism‚ but unlike Hellenistic Judaism it would not be a biblical Judaism face to face with a Hellenistic philosophy still embedded in a pagan matrix‚ rather Rabbinic Judaism facing a nonpaganized Greek philosophy.1 Rabbinic discourses about
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