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    Technology‚ Demography‚ and the Environment 1450-1750 The main trend relating to technology‚ demography‚ and the environment from 1450 to 1750 are … Some of the most influential new technologies were guns‚ improved shipbuilding‚ and better navigational devices. The invention of guns would forever change the way wars were fought. Instead of swords‚ bows and arrows‚ or lances‚ guns would emerge as the dominant global weapon. They were lighter than cannons and more efficient than bows and arrows.

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    the early modern era (1492-1750)‚ Africa and the Atlantic World were affected by Western Europe both socially and economically because of the exploration by the Europeans during the Age of Exploration‚ leading to a shift in their government to autonomous states and a desire to create trade growth. While Christianity and patriarchal views spread through the Columbian Exchange‚ slavery within triangular trade created a change in demographics in both Africa and the Atlantic World because of the movement

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    1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800                                         1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt

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    The Atlantic worlds welcomed the Caribbean and the Americas in early-modern era. After that they then opened up contact with many other regions. These regions included the Caribbean‚ the Americas‚ and west Africa. By way of these additions they also received major changes and continuities to both socially and economically . Economically‚ the Columbian exchange helped transport many of items and goods across the Atlantic also China still remained a major exporter of fine goods from 1492 to 1750. Socially

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    Atlantic Computers As Jason Jowers‚ product manager at Atlantic Computers‚ I am responsible for developing the pricing strategy of the new Atlantic Bundle. Atlantic Computers is a large manufacturer of servers and other high tech products. In our server industry‚ there are two main market segments and until now our company has only focused on one. The largest market segment is devoted to the high performance servers that traditionally are meant to run complex application such as scientific

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    e effect of Saint Domingue’s decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets‚ from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic

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    Nick Loughlin AP US History 9/5/11 The New World started for many reasons. Some of those reasons are for religious freedom‚ overpopulation in places like England‚ and for people hopeful to find gold and become wealthy. Religious freedom existed in the New England colonies prior to 1750. The New World was thought to be a religious haven but not all colonies allowed certain religious freedom. Some colonies had complete religious freedom such as Pennsylvania. Others had limited religious

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    Atlantic Canada - located on the eastern edge of Canada‚ the first entry into the continent was by Europeans. - Its natural resources have been exploited for centuries‚ making it an ’old’ resource hinterland. - Its small and highly dispersed population offers only small markets and few manufacturing opportunities. Distance from the markets of Central Canada has curtailed its trade within Canada and thus dampened its economic development. For that reason‚ its natural resources are exported

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    EXPLOSION IN 1750s

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    Cities. Doctors and Nurses was that after 1870 doctors started to use things like like anaesthetic and antibiotics to stop diseases caused by bacteria but they didnt know that then‚ and also so they die from diseases. Magic Midwives‚ which was after 1750 midwives started caring for patients more to stop illnesses until they were better‚ and and by that time some rich hospitals had also got maternaty bedsso pregnant women and children didnt have to lie on the floor while the they were in labour. Jenners

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    20‚ 21) Foundations of the Modern World‚ 1500-1750 This test will be offered on Identifications—The following terms will appear on your test in multiple choice form. Be able to identify the who/what‚ when‚ where‚ and the historical significance to choose the correct answer. Chapter 19 1. driver 2. seasoning 3. maroons 4. Middle Passage 5. Songhai 6. Hausa 7. mercantilism 8. capitalism 9. Atlantic system 10. Dutch West India Company

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