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    of control‚ support‚ and strength in such a rapidly changing era. One of the outcomes this realization was the infamous prosecution and persecution of so-called witches. This terrible injustice unfortunately continued to be in practice until the 18th century. Much before that‚ however‚ the plague spread throughout all of Europe in a vicious‚ lethal epidemic‚ decreasing population while increasing paranoia and

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    causes of the titanic consumption of these drugs in the 16th and 18th century. The stimulants gained strong believes for medical purposes‚cultural believes and social status. As a result of those causes‚ this stimulants found themselves in abundance in most parts of the world‚basically due to mass-production witch results from world expeditions to technological advances that made

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    Commonwealth p.6-7 -Thoughts p. 7 Colonization and trade In the 16-17th centuries‚ European superpowers began to establish colonies in other parts of the world outside Europe‚ such as Africa‚ America and India. Before the actual colonization in America began‚ fishing and trading companies had frequently used both Indian and American waters and traded with the locals. In the early 17th century‚ European powers started to rapidly colonize the Americas‚ establishing numerous colonies

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    Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries‚ a variety of laws were passed to remove the rights of slaves. What little rights slaves had were quickly taken away when African slavery became prominent in America. These were known as the Fugitive Slave Acts. History.com states‚ “Enacted by Congress in 1793‚ the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. Widespread resistance to the 1793

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    Throughout the nineteenth century three political ideals began influencing states and their  citizens like no other ideals had done before. These ideals were liberalism‚ socialism and‚ the  most important‚ nationalism. Each one possessed its own uniqueness which inspired mass  followings of people that would last thoroughly into the twentieth century. Each one also proved  to form a catalyst for the modernisation of many European countries. However‚ in comparison‚  none of these ideals had the impact that the nationalistic approach had

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    caught a lot of attention and inspired lots of films‚ novels and book throughout modern times. The 13 century in the history of psychopathology it’s known by the time when asylums began to emerge. (Roberts‚ A. 1981/Birth of the City London Bedlam) In the above developments there weren’t specific places for the mentally ill‚ because in most cases they were pursued and punished. That’s why in this century another paradigm comes in and changes the way people saw the mentally disable. By this time people

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    for the well patrolled English Channel and North Sea where piracy was a negligible concern. After crossing the lower North Sea his ship would have waited for an incoming tide and ridden that tide up to the Pool of London‚ the area below the London Bridge where fluyts and other traders anchored in midstream and unloaded

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    VI. The Eighteenth - Century Mathematics of France : The Development of Analysis ¢º Caracteristic of the Eighteenth - Century Mathematics | ¢º The Early Eighteenth Century | ¢º Euler’s Ages | ¢º Mathematicians of Revolution Ages | ¢º The Metric System | ¡ß Caracteristic of the Eighteenth - Century Mathematics     1700’s was the times to develop the calculus and to expand the analysis made in 1600’s.     In this century‚ there were so many enlargements of the design trigonometry‚

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    the New World in long journeys shackel to one another. The captains started taking around 300-400 slaves in each ship‚ and they ended up taking around 800-900. The fisrt journeys during the 17th century‚ took from 35 to 50 days‚ and a lot of the slaves died all along the trip. Although‚ during the 18th century‚ the ships were bigger and the journeys took around 30 days. The captains tried to make the trips as short as possible because they knew that more days at the sea‚ implicated more deaths among

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    History 109 October 3‚ 2012 Contact or Conquest? Development of America During the 15th Through 18th Centuries While European explorers throughout history had made many contacts throughout their expeditions‚ the discovery‚ colonization‚ and development of territories and culture during the 1400s to 1700s would best be described as conquest. Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ English‚ French‚ Dutch and Germans came to the New World in search of many different interests‚ but ultimately the “conquering” of civilizations

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