Throughout the 1600’s and 1700’s‚ the American colonies grew larger and larger‚ becoming more than just small settlements‚ into large self sufficient territories. Originally the colonies were supposed to be settlements to find gold and raw materials‚ but they eventually became the beginnings of the colonies that would start the United States. As they developed most colonies relied on agriculture and certain crops and trading to have an economical balance. For example‚ colonies like Virginia‚ Maryland
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racial categories have become a commonly accepted means of distinguishing various groups of people‚ it is actually a social construction based on arbitrary groupings that emerged from early European ideologies. At the start of the nineteenth century‚ Europe and America held an overwhelming belief in white superiority‚ and as a result‚ racial classifications emerged as a way to emphasize that belief. When taking a closer look at racial categories‚ one can see how they are ideologically unsound‚ and
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Throughout time Europeans and Native Americans influenced each other’s cultures. However‚ the lifestyle of the Native Americans was significantly changed with the influence of the Europeans‚ especially European traders and settlers. On the other hand‚ the Europeans influence the culture of the Native American by bringing diseases‚ constant fighting because the overtaking of lands‚ guns‚ steel hatchets‚ pots‚ and kettles of brass. Europeans also taught Native Americans the way to produce clothes and
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Japan and Western Europe are two countries on opposite sides of the earth‚ yet both had a time period known as the feudal period. Japan’s feudal age (12th century to the = 15th century) is comparable in many ways to Europe’s feudal age (9th century through the 15th century‚ also known as the Middle Ages). Three specific areas that share differences and similarities between these two ages of feudalism are in politics‚ culture‚ and social structure. An area in which the West and Japan are as different
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The purpose of this chapter 1‚ "The Material and Trading Worlds‚ circa 1400‚" is to describe what the world was like around 1400 in general terms. The author‚ Robert Marks‚ argues that most changes in history are the result of "huge processes that are hardly detectable‚" coming from the changes in social‚ economic‚ political‚ and cultural structures. He analyzes two major structural aspects of the world in the 1400’s: first‚ material and natural conditions under which most people lived; and second
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Eastern and Western Europe have monogamously different social aspects; both share political and economic factors. Eastern and Western Europe have alterations when environmental factors are compared. In Eastern Europe factories produce acid rain from the voluminous number of factories‚ while in Western Europe radiation from the Chernobyl disaster has devastated divisions. Economic factors for each region are very different if consideration is taking into the fact that Eastern Europe was in a way more
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ETHICS IS MORE THAN LEGALITY In the early 2000s‚ the U.S. public was shocked to learn that Enron‚ the giant energy trading company‚ had created off-the-books partnerships to unlawfully hide its debts and losses. The Enron disgrace soon was followed by more scandals at major companies like WorldCom‚ Tyco International‚ ImClone‚ HealthSouth‚ and Boeing. (See the Legal Briefcase box for a brief summary of a few of these cases.) In recent years‚ greedy borrowers and lenders alike were among those who
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in the America’s stems from the backlash against the Spanish in the late 1500’s early 1600’s. Following the disaster of the Spanish Armada crushing Spain as a maritime power and the alliance of Portugal with England‚ it was convenient to use the reputation of cruelty and ruthlessness to motivate people to fight against them and to justify colonization methods. While the vilification of Spain as an entity in Europe has existed for centuries‚ with the Spanish Inquisition as a particular case‚ the vilification
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Puritans felt God had a plan for their lives‚ that he had led them to the New World with great intentions for them; feeling God had led them to the place they came to call home‚ Puritans sought out to discover the purpose God had brought them here. In doing so they developed a theory that God had determined they be bestowed with literacy‚ leaving illiterate ministries in the past (as noted in A Statement about Education in New England‚ 1643). The expansion of literacy influenced Puritans to become
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Timeline 1400-1500: A chronology of Slavery‚ Abolition‚ and Emancipation in the fifteenth Century”‚ slavery originally started during the 1400s in Europe. Slavery was in effect even after the falling of the Roman Empire‚ but “became increasingly uncommon in Northern Europe and‚ by the 11th and 12th centuries‚ had been effectively abolished in the North” (Carey). But even then‚ certain kinds of slavery still existed and other parts of the world still used slaves. In the other hemispheres of Europe‚ slavery
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