East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions
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therefore cannot be changed. From 1700 to 1750‚ the differences in wealth and status in the colonies continued to increase. Once the gap started to widen‚ it was very difficult to alter due to the structure of the political system (or lack thereof). The plague of war created a class of widows and orphans‚ who became dependant for their survival on charity. The supply of unclaimed land dwindled and families grew‚ existing landholdings were repeatedly subdivided. By 1750‚ Boston supported a large
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stations‚ which were located about 32 km (20 mi) apart throughout the empire. Concern about supplying the new capital led the Yuan court to initiate the ambitious project of rerouting and expanding the Grand Canal‚ aiding the shipping of surplus grain from southern China to the less fertile lands of the north. Such government support for merchants‚ together with the peace imposed on much of Asia by the Mongols‚ resulted in the greatest expansion of commerce in Eurasian history. Indian‚ Southeast
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Between 200 C.E. and 900 C.E.‚ China underwent a lot of significant changes and continuities‚ especially in political and economical aspects. A specific change that happened to China’s economic system was the shift from agriculture in the Han Dynasty to trading in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Although there were changes in power and rule‚ China’s political administration continued to hold the same basic ideals‚ and was grounded in Confucian thought. During the late Han Dynasty‚ agriculture was the
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Question 1: In 1900s as the population of the black community increase in many southern cities so is also the need to build more affordable houses that they will live in. The characteristics that plagued the black community in the 1900s even up till now is that majority of the working class in the black community are lower income earners. There is high rate of unemployment and crime rate. There also exists high rate of maternity. The challenge city planners face is to carry out a land reform considering
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Why did tension increase in Europe from 1900 to 1014?There are various factors that amplified the tensions in Europe from 1900 to 1914. A few of the major factors were International rivalry‚ the arms race‚ colonialism and the Crisis ’s of Morocco and Bosnia. These factors‚ alongside numerous others contributed to fuelling the First World War. International rivalry was‚ debatably‚ the biggest factor that caused the First World War. As the European powers such as Britain‚ France and Russia had been
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The tiny south pacific nation of East Timor has had a long and tumultuous history. While it has been touted as the first independent country of the 21st century‚ the government originally declared its independence in November of 1975. East Timor had spent over 300 years under Portuguese rule and the colonial influences did much to shape Timorese culture and society. As a result East Timor developed very differently from its neighbours and had little in common with the former Dutch colony that
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is from this ideology that historians have over the years realized how genocides occur within different countries. From 1975 until roughly 1979‚ the ideology is defined within the genocide that took place within the Portuguese colony of East Timor (p. 279). It was until this time that the country of East Timor had been loosely administered by the Portuguese. Because of this notion that‚ “…for more than four centuries Portugal had been the dominant‚ almost exclusive‚ external influence in East Timor”
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The East African community commonly refers to the three East African states namely Kenya‚ Tanzania and Uganda‚ within the recent past it has been used to refer to Rwanda and Burundi which are pushing forward to join the block and be it’s forth and Fifth member states. Sometimes the term is used to refer to a wider geographical region covering even the wider Ethiopia‚ Djibouti‚ and Eritrea. The region (EA) boast of a huge population of around 100 million people currently‚ like the rest of sub-Saharan
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PART II‚ UNIT IV:1750-1914 The era between 1750 and 1914 C.E. was one of clear Europeanhegemony. In the previous era (1450 to 1750 C.E.)‚ Europeans hadtilted the balance of world power away from Asia‚ where powerfulcivilizations had existed since ancient times. However‚ despitegrowing European influence based on sea trade and colonization‚ majorland-based empires in Asia still influenced long-distance trade andshaped political and economic conditions around them. In this era‚Europe not only dominated
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