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    Portugal- History of Exploration from 1480 AD - 1700 AD 1. Spain and Portugal--Unified but Declining: Spain was slowly being strangled to death by its own colonial empire abroad. Although Spain had amassed great wealth which resulted in a "golden age" for Spanish culture and the arts under Philip II (r. 1556-98)‚ much of that fortune was squandered on luxuries‚ the ill-conceived Armada‚ and the purchase of prestige to the point that the Spanish economy began to deteriorate by 1600. The Portuguese

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    Marco Polo When I was younger one of my favorite games to play in a swimming pool was “Marco Polo”. Little did I know that this famous childhood game was named after the famous explorer‚ Marco Polo himself. It is said that the reason the game was named after him was because one day Polo was traveling through China and grew very tired. He fell asleep on his horse and wondered away from the rest of his group. Later‚ he heard his group members calling his name‚ “Marco”. In return he called back to

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    middle‚ and early high school we were taught that all explorers were heroes but when you look in deep you see that they are heroes‚ they were just famous for finding lands and continents. That’s all they are‚ founders of some lands. They are heroes that’s just how they were presented. When the explorers found land‚ they thought no life was there but that was wrong. When they saw that there was life they traded and more. But some of the explorers and settlers’ thought to tell the “native” Americans

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    English explorer John Smith seemed to “spice up” his ordeal with the Indians. He speaks of them as savages when it seems they actually treated him very well. The next phase in American literature started in 1620 with the arrival of the Pilgrims. Unlike the Puritans‚ the Pilgrims wanted nothing to do with the English church. Like the explorers before them they make recordings of their journeys and events that happened. Throughout

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    wealth‚ but most importantly gain uncivilized and unclaimed territory. Wealthy empires‚ such as the Spanish and the Portuguese‚ funded historic explorers for example‚ such as Pizarro and Magellan‚ to expand and connect two distinct worlds. One of the first explorers to set foot in North America‚ who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 was the Italian explorer‚ Christopher Columbus. As they sailed on August and reached their destination in October‚ the two-month expedition led them to the Caribbean island

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    CHAPTER 10 FRANCE COMES TO CANADA 1534 As the Portuguese were pushing their explorers around the coast of Africa to find a route to the treasures of China and the Far East‚ there were many now convinced that Columbus had a great idea in searching for a shorter way by sailing west. Not everyone however‚ was certain that the world really was round. Except for Spain‚ the rulers of Europe saw no advantage in exploring the islands or landmasses found by Columbus. France made

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    of east Arkansas since Hernando de Soto’s expedition in the 1540s. The goal given Marquette‚ Joliet‚ and their men was to document‚ for French and Canadian officials‚ an area that had been largely unknown until the late seventeenth century. Both explorers were from very different

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    Compare Contrast Latin American and North American Civilization There were many similarities and differences in the Latin American and North American civilizations (1450-1700 AD). They had similar social and economic structure and differing political structures. Both used the same type of social classes. The North and Latin American civilizations had hierarchical social classes based on ethnicity. The economic make-up of the people living in the civilization was very diverse. The North had people

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    how much Antarctica has moved etc. Old explorers like made the first journeys across the vast continent and became ingrained into history books for doing so. Captain Cook was one such explorer‚ he travelled in the 1840’s and he recorded things about Antarctica‚ and he set the benchmark for explorers and scientists after him. He got temperature reading at different places in Antarctica and rock samples among many things. Captain Scott was another explorer who travelled to the Antarctica‚ he travelled

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    Book 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 Page Topic 5 allocated/unallocated 6 slack space 7 FileSystem Metadata 8 Deleted Files 9 Fat and NTFS file systems 10 FAT file deletion 11 NTFS file deletion 12 Timestamps 12 Timestamps Evidence of Categories FTK processing options FTK Evidence Refinement FTK RAM acquisition FTK Memory Analysis FTK searching Registry analysis Hives Backup Hives 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐.3 408.2‐

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