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    In this lecture I leaned about the Atlantic slave trade. Specifically how brutal the conditions on the sugar plantations slaves had to work on in Brazil were. They worked long and tedious hours. Almost 14 hours a day filled with back breaking labor. Since the labor was difficult‚ many slaves died at a young age thus slaves being imported to the Americas increased. Where did the idea of slavery come from? Slavery in the Atlantic was a combination of ideas past empires in Eurasia believed in

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    How Far did Changes to Transport 1750-1900 Benefit the British People? In this essay‚ I will be explaining how transport changes how they helped British People during the Industrial Revolution. I will be writing about three types of transport: Roads‚ Canals and Railways. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution‚ in 1750‚ it was very difficult to travel on roads as there were a lot of holes that were full of water‚ which meant there was no drainage. This waster filled up all the ruts. All

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    Europe‚ Africa and America treated atlantic slave trade differently. The slavery purchasing was mainly done through Dutch West Indies Company. The need for slaves became so big that the Europeans had to open trade to everyone. Europe made a great profit from slavery. Europeans saw Africans as people below them‚ the process allowed them to justify the purchase of slaves. Most slaves were prisoners of war. Europeans used guns‚ money‚ and horses purchase slaves from the Europeans. Some of the African

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    Topic: What was Realpolitik? Evaluate the political leaders after 1850 to determine whether they upheld this idea. Realpolitik is the idea of doing what is good for your country‚ and not caring about the affect it has on other countries. Throughout 1850‚ there was a series of leaders that upheld the idea of Realpolitik. Europe was going through many crisis’s during this time‚ poverty was high and the economy was very bad. Leaders were just fighting for ways to help out their countries that

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    Changes that occurred in 1750-1850 This period of time (1750-1850) was the Industrial Revolution. This meant that the factory system and use of machines increased. There were also more wealth for Britain and increase of population! However there changes in social‚ religion‚ economic and more political changes‚ this resulted in incidences such as calls for education‚ voting‚ equality and so on. But the main changes were transport‚ industry‚ home/leisure and health. Transport changes quickly

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    The Irish occupy a unique place in the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade‚ being white Europeans who were both slaves and slave owners‚ depending on which way the political and economic winds were blowing from the seventeenth century onwards. From the ruled to the rulers the Irish played a significant and almost universal role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and their story is one which is deserving of a greater knowledge both at home in Ireland but also worldwide. In relation to the question

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    During the period of 1492 to 1750‚ Europe experienced drastic changes during their Age of Discovery. As a result of contact and colonization‚ Western Europe’s economy‚ political‚ social‚ and military systems changed‚ but also maintained certain aspects that enabled them to build strong civilizations. Such changes include increased (international) trade routes‚ more centralized governments such as monarchies‚ decreased unifying influence of the Catholic Church‚ and increased interest in military conquest

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    persistent religion but it also went through many altercations as the society changed over time. The first major change is that Islam was born and developed over time. Before 600 C.E‚ Middle East was not such an organized society because its people worshipped several thousand gods as idols and used them for corrupted purposes. However‚ this man called Mohammad sought to change the society‚ considering it being so fraudulent. He soon then developed the religion of Islam‚ missioned by the angel

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    What effects did the slave trade have on African society? The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history. It developed after Europeans began exploring and establishing trading posts on the Atlantic (west) coast of Africa in the mid-15th century. The first major group of European traders in West Africa was the Portuguese‚ followed by the British and the French. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ these European colonial powers began to pursue plantation

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    Slave Trade In The 1800s

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    Britain had become the largest exporter of African slaves to the Americas by the 18th century. By the start of the 19th century more than half of the slaves taken from the West Coast of Africa had been transported across the Atlantic Ocean by British ships. Although Britain was one of the key investors in the slave institution it became the first major European country to leave the trans- Atlantic slave trade and make it illegal in 1807. The discovery of the Americas at the end of the 15th century

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