America – the huge “Social Experiment?” Early Exploration of the Americas ➢ The Native Americans – 40‚000 BC ➢ Influence of some early explorers: Leif Erickson (1000)‚ Marco Polo (1295)‚ Columbus (1492)‚ Amerigo Vespucci (1507) ➢ The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Factors for European Exploration ➢ Desire for East Asian products & a trade route (Northwest Passage) ➢ Religious Competition ➢ Improved Science & Technology ➢ The “Renaissance Spirit” What factors spurred
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CCOT Western Europe - France 1600 - 1850 Western Europe and specifically France had continuities and changes that occurred in the political and social structures over the time period of 1600 to 1850. In the year 1600‚ France was a monarchy ruled by Henry IV. He ascended to power after his childless cousin‚ Henry III‚ died. Ruling from 1589-1610‚ Henry IV survived at least 12 assassination attempts. The reason so many people tried to assassinate him was because the Catholics felt he usurped
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Was Britain a better place by 1900? This essay covers the years 1750 to 1900. During this period‚ lasting and sustainable changes took place. It was a period in British history when great industrial towns and cities appeared‚ vaccinations meant life expectancy was risen and people where linked by roads‚ canals and trains‚ that not only went through the cities‚ but the countryside too. In the 1900 people where better fed and sewage systems where emplaced and the police were enforced. However some
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Genoa‚ in the 11th century‚ Genoese and Pisans captured Almadia and Subelia in Africa. In the 15th century‚ the hundred year war ended from a frightful time from the Europeans. The 15th century was a time of change and Europe and Spain made the effort to move to the American lands. Spain and Europe did not know what to expect when it came to traveling to the new world. Soon came of Chistoforo Columbo or Cristobal Colon‚ born in 1446. Columbus as he is known after his death in 1506 changed the
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be ashamed Introduction During this year in United Stated we will celebrate again Christopher Columbus day; to be exact is going to be on October 16‚ 2016. During this day we will commemorates Christopher Columbus discovering a new world back in 1492‚ but with the past of the years this celebration had been a remembrance of a difficult and a deep marked in our history that many Americans feel and trying to erase from their past. Did Christopher Columbus was a brutal colonizer that brought slaves
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Look at political and economic systems‚ cultural and intellectual development‚ and technological progress. 18. Discuss the changes and continuities that occurred in the roles and functions of cities in major societies from the Neolithic Revolution to 1750. 19• Trace and analyze the changes and continuities in global demographics from 8000 BCE through 1900 CE. Be sure to address what global processes affected it throughout that time? 20• Trace and analyze the evolution of slavery and serfdom
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geographical discoveries in human history. He was in his youth believer in the theory of spherical Earth and not leading the famous Marco Polo every respect and appreciation‚ and the determination to become a navigator. During the period between the year 1492 and in 1502 crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times and discovered the American continent and became a great crew in the history of the world. Columbus Italy and had a passion for navigation and exploration since he was young and looked forward to
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he landed in the north coast of Cuba on October 28‚ 1492‚ because he was told that there was a great amount of gold to be found in the “Island called Samoete”(Young). However‚ he went looking for it‚ but did not find any. He renamed Cuba to Juana in honor of the young prince‚ the son of the King of Spain
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Christopher Columbus (1451 May 20‚ 1506) was a navigator‚ colonizer‚ and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe‚ Columbus’ voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. It is generally believed that he was born in Genoa‚ although other theories exist. The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicization of the Latin Christophorus
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1. Analyze the changes in global commerce from 1750 to 1914 due to changes in technology‚ communication and economic theory. 2. Analyze the demographic changes between 1750 and 1914 due to three of the following: industrialization food supply immigration birth rate patterns health slave trade 3. Analyze the social‚ economic and political changes and continuities facing women between 1750 and 1914 in the industrialized world. 4. Choose TWO of the areas listed below
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