of gold in Africa simply by paying for everything using gold. However‚ gold was not the only resource traded in Africa. The trans-Saharan trade routes were a vast trade network that reached across the continent‚ on which diverse goods and resources were traded‚ and knowledge‚ ideas‚ and religion spread in a phenomenon known as cultural diffusion. Cultural diffusion that occurred along the trans-Saharan trade routes shaped the development of culture in medieval Africa. The trans-Saharan trade routes
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Since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society‚ much has been done to address poverty in the United States. Over time‚ there have been both changes and continuities. One continuity is that politicians have kept Medicare‚ Medicaid‚ and the Education subsidies from LBJ’s plan largely intact. One change is that LBJ’s plan focused on directly providing money to those in poverty‚ while later plans focused on getting people jobs. Politicians have kept Medicare‚ Medicaid‚ and Education subsidies intact from the Great
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least as far as western Europe is concerned‚ in the fifth. During the long decline‚ great self-made figures‚ never from Rome but from the fringes of the empire‚ come forward and seek‚ by heroic efforts‚ to restore the unity‚ the security‚ the stability of the empire. They are famous figures in politics‚ religion‚ and art. The Roman Empire from 100 C.E. – 600 C.E. had many cultural and political changes as well as cultural and political continuities. There were many political changes from the Roman
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My Name... Period 02 April 15‚ 2013 Changes and Continuities During 1700 C.E to 1900 C.E From the time period of 1700 C.E to 1900 C.E there were long distance migrations happening around the world. Nevertheless‚ a continuity was missionary activity throughout America and China‚ while some changes in long distance migration from that time period occurred as European‚ African‚ and Chinese laborers were sent to the Americas‚ Long distance migrations were also established through missionary activity
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modern medicine seem to have nothing but a Western influence. Amongst the world’s medical products‚ the U.S. is literally the mecca of prescription and over the counter drugs. America alone accounts for five of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical corporations (Pharmaceutical-Technology 1.) However‚ America’s prowess and significance in the world of medicine does not necessarily elucidate to the entirety of the history of medicine. Contrary to popular belief‚ Africa is not just the nerve center of witch
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There were many continuities for women between 600-1450 such as they were still subordinate to men and were not allowed to be educated but the changes were more significant like their right to divorce was brought upon in this time period along with their ability to gain power through marriage. Women from 600-1450 continued to be ranked under men’s superiority. For centuries women were under men in every way. Religion‚ economy‚ and politics saw women as the lesser of the two sexes. This unfortunately
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evolved through the centuries. A perfect example of this is Eurasia from 600-1450. There were many continuities and changes in Eurasian trade. During this time period there was continuity with how trade spread ideas and disease‚ but there was also change in technology that allowed trading over larger distances and in who controlled trade. Much of how trade spread ideas and disease
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After the fall of the classical civilizations from 100 to 600 CE the world experienced many changes. China’s fall was not as drastic as Rome’s‚ but it was still worse than India’s. The collapse of the Han dynasty caused China to go into three centuries of unrest until the Sui and Tang dynasties came to the rescue. China had more continuities than changes after its fall‚ unlike the other classical civilizations. China went from a politically centralized civilization with a developed hierarchy with
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Western Europe changed rapidly during the Early Modern Period‚ from around 1450 to 1750: very little remained the same. The shift from feudalism to the development of defined nation states that looked to colonize the New World continued with more centralized forms of parliamentary and absolute monarchies. Colonies helped increase revenue for the West‚ fundamentally altering the economy from its agricultural base during the feudal period to a capitalist world economy with a rising middle class‚ though
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French West Africa provided palm oil and peanuts to the French correspondingly. Colonial empires in Africa and Asia first realized the evils of their European colonial “masters” when they got transferred to the Western Front. This bitterly changed the views between recruited troops and their “owners” eternally. For labor purposes used behind the army‚ Great Britain drafted approximately 330 thousand civil workforces from the Fiji Islands‚ the Union of South Africa‚ West Indies‚ Mauritius
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