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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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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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The idea of a glorious earthly paradise far from the known world had existed in the European imagination long before 1492. That idea of a distant paradise on earth shaped the way Europeans came to think of America after Columbus and his successors reported their discoveries. For example‚ the following mythic lands may have served as inspirations for the alluring idea of America as a place of joy‚ ease‚ riches‚ and regeneration: a. the Garden of the Hesperides of Greek myth
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Colonization of the New World The discovery and colonization of the “New World” was one of the most significant and influential events in the known history of mankind. It has shaped our present by changing the course of our past and is a time of such great significance that it would be all but impossible to understand today without at least some comprehension of the why ’s of yesterday. What was it that drove such a myriad of people to risk so much to tame the wild and vast lands we now know
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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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The time period of 1492 to 1750 was a time of global transformation as well as continuity in the social and economical aspects. Regions such as Africa‚ Western Europe‚ and the Americas changed because of the many affects the Colombian Trade. Different imports and exports that each region had drastically changed much of the economic and social aspects of the time. These regions followed a path of continuity in many things and because of the ever-expanding communication going on‚ social structures
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Chapter 15 Outline I. World Contacts Before Columbus 1. The Afro-Eurasian trade world linked Europe‚ Asia and Africa in the 15th century. A. The Trade World of the Indian Ocean 1. Indian Ocean was the center of Afro-Eurasian trade world. 2. Location made crossroads for China‚ India‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe. 3. Trading volume increased over the centuries as merchants congregated in a series of cosmopolitan port cities‚ most had some form of autonomous self-government 4. Most developed
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Exploration and the New World From Richard Bulliet et al.‚ The Earth and Its Peoples‚ v. 2‚ 5th edn (Wadsworth/Cengage‚ 2012)‚ p. 382 The harsh waters of the Atlantic Ocean kept the Americas isolated from the rest of the world for many years. A few sailing attempts were made were made in Atlantic but none were successful‚ except for the Vikings who first found North America in 986 and Genoese and Portuguese explorers who discovered the islands of Madeira‚ the Azores
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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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Chapter 1 – New World Beginnings‚ 33‚00B.C – A.D. 1769 New World Beginnings – the human history of the new world began during the ice-age when‚ because of lower sea levels‚ Asiatic tribes were able to cross the Bering Strait and populate the Americas. Eventually‚ these peoples migrated and dispersed to form tribes and some advanced civilizations on almost every corner of these two continents. Bering Strait – a land bridge connecting modern-day Alaska and Russia. During the Ice Age‚ low ocean
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