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    French and Indian War 1754~1763 alter the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies? With France‚ Britain‚ and Spain all seeking for land and money in North America‚ war was the only solution to end the power struggle. Touched off by George Washington in Ohio Valley‚ it started the war that eventually became known as the Seven Years War‚ which was the largest the world has ever seen. The war affected the relations between the colonists and Britain

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    Early North American Cultures I October 29‚ 201 Early North American Cultures The first group of people to migrate to a relatively bare and less frigid North America was Asians and their Native American descendants who unwittingly were the first to discover and create settlements in what is known today as North America. Long before any ships sailed from Europe in search of new land and a haven from the turmoil‚ starvation and disease that plagued their homeland‚ these nomadic hunters

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    Culture Paper: American Indian Pride” December 2. 2012 Survey of Exceptionalities 1. What is the name of this culture? The name of the culture of people I selected is the American Indians of North American. I did not want to select just one type or subgroup of this culture‚ but capture a few elements of the people altogether as one whole culture. The four largest tribes of American Indians are Navajo (308‚013)‚ Cherokee (285‚ 476)‚ Sioux (131‚ 048)‚ and Chippewa (115

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    American vs Indian culture No two cultures are the same. The American and Indian cultures have very vast differentiation between them..While the culture of America is a mixture of different cultures‚ the Indian culture is unique and has its own values. One of the major differences that can be seen between American and Indian culture is in family relations. While the Indians are very much family oriented‚ the Americans are individual oriented. In Indian culture‚ the family values are given more

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    aspects of early American history is the part that native peoples played in its culture‚ development and institutions. With out the natives‚ English settlers could not have survived the new land. While trading their metal tools and other goods‚ the natives gave them food supplies for the English to survive. At times the Indians showed generosity in providing gifts of food to the colony. On other occasions‚ encounters between the colonists and the tribes turned violent‚ and the Native Americans occasionally

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    Land was very important to the Europeans. And especially the European settlers coming to the new land. In England land meant that you were very wealthy. If you owned large amounts of land you also could have been someone with a lot of political power. The majority of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe because they were very poor. They were just lucky that they got a spot on the ship. They also belonged to religious groups that didn’t have a lot of power. In the new world no one owned

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    Over the past 50 years‚ European Colonies have seen a massive growth in their population. With immigrants from Ireland‚ Scotland and Germany coming to America in search of religious freedom‚ a new American culture has seemed to evolve. Data shows that Englishmen have dominated the Colonies with an outstanding 49%. 14% of the population consists of Scottish and Germans‚ and the Scots-Irish make up 5% of our general public. While Blacks make up 20% of the Colonies‚ and are generally located in the

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    Q1: Defend or refute one of the following statements: The European encounter with the Americas can be viewed as a disaster and a tragedy. Or The European encounter with the Americas can be seen as inevitable development in the history of humanity with long-run positive results. The European encounter with the Americas has more of a negative affect than a positive affect. After Columbus had came back from America with gold‚ many monarchs and countries got excited by the gold and sought formal confirmation

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    The Settlers and the Natives The Colonie’s relationship with the natives of the land that they colonied effected the way that the colonies evolve. From as early as the discovery of Roanoke in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh who captured two Native American back to England‚ bad blood had formed between the Chesapeake Colonies and the Native Americans. The New England Colonies had a very different relationship with the Natives‚ one which involed alliances and trade. Throughout history‚ these alliances

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    Year 8 Critical Review – Different Cultures… How does Jolil feel trapped between the two cultures in the short story Kiss Miss Carol by Farrukh Dhondy? In this essay I shall be discussing and looking at how Jolil feels‚ distressed between two different cultures that he is living in‚ at school and at home. Jolil feels stuck between the two cultures because his family are Muslim. Their culture is Bangladeshi and he is living in Britain in the East End of London. In ‘Kiss Miss Carol’ I think Farrukh

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