long held European beliefs. Included among those are ideas about race and its relationship to freedom. With new innovations and the high time of Indian Ocean trade‚ new ideas were spread everywhere. Two factors influenced this change. One was the discovery of the New World and the second was the demand for slaves. With the discovery of the New World‚ explorers were introduced to new civilizations. While they were sophisticated‚ they were still primitive in comparison to the Europeans. Their customs
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of farming as way of life‚ and the construction of large urban centres. Moreover‚ it is a territory where along the years we can identify different shifting systems of beliefs‚ technological and economic changes due to European cultural influences. The first European influence appeared in 1488 when a Portuguese ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. In the next centuries‚ both the British and the Dutch founded settlements in the area of Cape sea route. By the end of the 17th century‚ the
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European Nations wanted more land‚ power‚ and natural resources. They got this by conquering and colonizing new lands. Africa was not colonized‚ making the continent a prime area for colonization. Prior to the 19th century European nations only used Africa for its slave trade‚ therefore‚ only settling on the coasts. The driving forces behind these European conquests in Africa were caused by political‚ cultural‚ and economic reasons. The primary reason European countries were imperialistic
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of this? Throughout history‚ Europe has raped Africa of its natural resources‚ riches‚ people before and during colonisation but never held responsible for the current state Africa is in. European colonization is rarely taught about in school because apparently slavery is the only horrible thing that Europeans did and not how colonization severely damaged Africa’s society‚ economy‚ and environment. So isn’t it time to finally talk about how colonization ruined Africa? The land of South Africa
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Causes of Large-Scale Native American Deaths Between 1500 and 1700 Between 1500 and 1700‚ most of the original Native American population vanished. After European conquest‚ the ways of living for the Native Americans had forever changed‚ and few had survived large-scale deaths to carry on or learn to live in harmony with the Europeans. Deaths in such great numbers did not result from a single cause. Rather it was a combination of many different causes that led to a near extinction of the Native
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ATH108 Tues/Thurs The Indo-European Language Family The Indo-European language family includes about 150 languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people‚ including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia. This hypothesis was first proposed by Sir William Jones‚ who noticed similarities between four of the oldest languages known in his time‚ Latin‚ Greek‚ and Sanskrit and Persian. Scholars used to call the group "Indo-Germanic languages". However‚ when it became
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Africa was colonized by the Dutch and British‚ the African societies were farming-based communities. But when Jan Van Riebeeck‚ an official of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)‚ came to South Africa in 1652‚ African Societies where changed under European Colonial rule (“History”). When the Dutch came over‚ the African rulers began to trade with the new settlers. What the rulers traded the most were firearms because the more guns‚ knives‚ etc. the rulers had in their possession‚ the higher the status
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Singapore Management University | The enhancement of the European Parliament: Effects on Policies | | Suriagandhi Selathorai 11/13/2012 | The enhancement of the European Parliament: Effects on Policies Introduction The European Parliament (EP) was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. In the original institutional design of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)‚ the EP was not intended to play any key major roles. The EP was one of the oldest common institutions where
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including preparing and serving the food‚ weaving clothing‚ and raising and educating the children. When settlers came to the New World they were appalled to see how the Native American women did all of the traditional and manual labor‚ according to European standards. They worked in and around the house‚ reared the children‚ prepared the food and created pottery. They also worked in the fields tilling the land and farming. What the early explorers noted was the men were leisurely enjoying their lives
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Over the span of the 19th century‚ the European Empire expanded physically with the colonization of Africa‚ and mentally through advances in technology and education. Despite the fact that the world was changing‚ European women had the enormous pressure set upon them to stay exactly as they had always been. Through this paper‚ readers will better understand the limits and restrictions that 19th-century women bodies and sexuality had placed upon them‚ and how colonization‚ plus the emergence of the
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