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    Prior to 1490s‚ Europeans had already sailed down to west coast Africa and were having a long-established trade in African Slaves. Moreover‚ European expansion basis was the ambition for the trade and resources of Asia. They tried to expand further to Asia motivated by ambition for the trade and resources of Asia. Three centuries after Columbus’s discovery of Americavarious Europeans which are Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ French‚ English and Dutch were dominating Native American. They were occupying the

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    Motives of European conquest to America- land‚ trade‚ missionary: A series of wars began between Christians and Muslims. They were fighting for control of the area of Southwest Asia called Palestine. This area contained Christian shrines and holy places. Land: each noble ruled a piece of land and hoped to rule more. Strong rulers were able to unify nearby lands. Purpose of the American colonies in eyes of Europeans- Mercantilism: mercantilism is guided by economic principles. Governments held

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    The Europeans were motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had many motives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him on his voyages. The most important motive was economic. The conquests of the Ottoman Turks had cut the Europeans off from trade with Asia. The overland trade routes were controlled by the Arab Muslims

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    The first European Americans When people think about the new world‚ they might think why did European sail across the globe to the new world? Why did Chinese‚ for example‚ did not want to sail? The answer to that is Europeans‚ unlike Chinese or any other group of people‚ had two main reasons that made them interested to sail to the new world. Europeans were motivated by their poverty‚ and their motive to convert the world to Christianity. In other words‚ Europeans were motivated by “God‚ gold‚ and

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    The epigraph to Mister Pip ‘characters migrate’ relates to both the protagonist Pip in Great Expectations and Matilda in Mister Pip. Throughout both novels these characters migrate physically from place to place‚ which initiates a cognitive migration in their values and attitudes. This migration presents the themes of family‚ honesty‚ hard work‚ imagination and religion to the reader. At the start of Great Expectations Pip is a simple country boy of seven years‚ content with his status and future

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    their country is not pushing them‚ but pulled them to stay. This theory it’s easily applied to the European situation back at the time and explains why they decided to migrate to the New World since while curiosity of exploring new lands could be one of the reasons it’s a really weak reason to justify the dangers they faced in order to get to the New World‚ to understand the reasons why Europeans migrate to the new world we need to know how was the situation back at the time: POLITICAL‚ SOCIAL‚ RELIGIOUS

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    The significant motive for early European explorations across the Atlantic was the dream of enormous riches. Initially‚ Portuguese and Spanish explorers and merchants were interested in exploiting lands in Africa search of silver and gold. In order to this they had to develop new vessel technology to take them there. This started a chain of happy accidents that would later help Atlantic Europe discover and conquer the new world. As more exploration was done‚ the Spanish were able to locate material

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    Anderson AP U.S. History August 14‚ 2014 Motives‚ Problems‚ and Rewards of European Exploration European expansion in the 1400’s was an unforeseen event that changed everything. This age endowed Europe to control something it never thought it could. With the persuasion of firm motives‚ the Europeans and their countries endured troublesome problems and prospered with advantageous rewards during the age of exploration and expansion. What provoked European countries in the early fifteenth century

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    spreading religion spurred European journeys of exploration and conquest to the new world. One seemingly very appealing idea to the Europeans was to conquer new land and expand their own. Fray Bartolome de las Casas‚ the Bishop of Chiapas‚ angrily describes the invasion of Europeans into New Spain to show their inhumane nature. Fray tells how they murdered people on the pretense of settling the land; this describes their want for conquest. In document 5‚ the author similarly describes the horrific actions

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    Answer: 3. List several services running on each computer? 4. Which host had the highest number of vulnerabilites? The least number of vulnerabilities? 5. Identify one high severity vulnerability for each computer (if there is one). Describe the vulnerability and discuss control(s) to minimize the risk from the vulnerability. Answer: one high severity vulnerability for each is port attack. vulnerability is a weakness which allows hacker to attack on system. Nessus is a vulnerability

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