from European countries. Smallpox is a rapidly spreading disease. There were different types of vaccines‚ but still tough for some Indians. Smallpox was split differently with how rare and deathly it was. There was many tribes affected with this disease and many people. It had many affects on the culture. Smallpox did a big thing in its history. It is literally on of the worst diseases known to the human race. The end eventually came but smallpox
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Imagine life is going great and within a second it turns dark and affects you and the millions around you. It was October 29‚ 1929‚ now known as “Black Tuesday” when the stock market crashed. The crash happened due to most people buying on credit. Some people got a loan to buy shares. The crash was on Wall Street in New York. All the investors that day lost $14 Billion on the New York Stock Exchange which is equivalent to $199 billion today. After the crash‚ stock prices continued to fall. People’s
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In the last decades of the nineteenth century around 2-15 million of the Congolese died when Europeans began to take over the Congo Free State‚ evidently affecting the Congolese greatly. The Europeans made this horrific takeover because they believed that they could change Africa for the better. There were many changes in the Congo’s culture‚ economic and social status. This takeover initiated because of the Europeans’ want in their resources and the beginning of racism and abuse toward the Congolese
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The Black Sea is an important part of Russian history because of how influential it was to the people. The Black Sea is also an important part of many other countries ’ histories also. The Russian culture has a lot to do with the Black Sea because without it the Russian culture would not be as diverse. There would
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How did slaves affect the daily Roman economy? As Romans won wars and conquered lands‚ the population of these towns would in most cases become slaves. Some records indicate that Julius Caesar once sold a whole town in his Gallic campaign‚ for which the dealers gave him a receipt for 53‚000 men‚ women‚ and children. “Census records from Roman Egypt during the first few centuries CE‚ some 13 percent of adequately documented households owned slaves” (Scheidel‚ 2010). It is also said that in the
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The experiments that Tesla did at Colorado prepared him for Wardenclyffe‚ which is a trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility near Shoreham‚ Long Island. Tesla began to plan the Wardenclyffe Tower facility with a budget of 150‚000 dollars‚ in 1900. Later‚ Tesla asked for
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against that‚ not much was being resolved. The murder of Emmett Till erupted in the country‚ and stimulated the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). This essay discusses the murder itself and its consequences‚ but more importantly to what extent did it affect the CRM and how important that effect was. Emmett Till‚ a fourteen year
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The British East India company held India in its grasp until the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 happened. Because of the rebellion England decided to take more control over the colony by having the actual government take root and complete control in 1857. With Britain having taken over India they turned it into a very efficient colony and maximizing its potential‚ while also putting controlling and racist laws to Indians and restricting them in most ways‚ by forcing them to farm non food crops‚ destroying
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the 1920s as the Roaring Twenties because of a varied of factors which include rapid social change‚ impact of technology on domestic life and the changes in social values. Women started to have more social freedoms and young people start picking up smoking and drinking‚ despite alcohol were illegal in USA. Furthermore‚ technologies has greatly impacted on domestic life with the creation of modernization technologies such as indoor plumping‚ gas stoves that now replace
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Questions Chapter 7 31. How did the Embargo affect the election of 1808‚ and what was the response of the new president to diplomatic problems that the Embargo had addressed? The Embargo created a depression on the nation and gave merchants the impression that Jefferson was acting unconstitutionally. Therefore‚ in the election of 1808‚ the Federalists ran stronger than before. Even though the Republicans won the presidency‚ Madison understood that the Embargo was a political liability and eventually
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