Research Project: Potato The potato originated in the South American Andes‚ but its heartland of wild genetic diversity reaches from Venezuela‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ Argentina‚ Chile‚ Uruguay‚ Paraguay‚ southern Brazil‚ northward into Central America‚ Mexico‚ and the southwestern United States. Potato was first cultivated between 3 and 7 thousand years ago‚ some scientists believe they may have grown wild in the region as long as 13‚000 years ago. Potato is the third most important
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Managing Business: Assignment 1 Question 1 The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company with almost 500 brands ranging from the actual Coca-Cola® to products such as Sprite®‚ Fanta®‚ POWERADE®‚ Minute Maid®‚ and many‚ many more. The product was originally born in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ in 1886. Today‚ the Coca-Cola Company has been in business for 125 years‚ employs 139‚600 people‚ and sells 1.6 billion beverages each day in more than 200 countries. Coca‑Cola has been a catalyst for
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According to source two Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu‚ as the last stronghold of the incas and superb architectural and archeological importance‚ Machu Picchu is one of the most important cultural sites in latin america‚ the stonework of this site remains as one of the world’s great examples of the use of natural raw material to provide
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“He knew the word for it”: Representations of Homosexuality in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Fiction Masterproef voorgedragen tot het behalen van de graad van Master in de Vergelijkende Moderne Letterkunde Katelijne Sommen Master in de Vergelijkende Moderne Letterkunde Universiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte Academiejaar 2011-2012 Promotor: prof. dr. Stef Craps 1 Table of contents Foreword and Thanks Introduction Sexuality and Homosexuality in Africa Terminology “Africa” Literature
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The British took Nigeria as a colony around 1885 and into the early part of the 1900s. In 1914‚ Northern and Southern Nigeria were brought together to create one single entity known as Nigeria. The British created a legislative council in 1922. The council started off mainly Britains but slowly began to incorporate Western educated Africans. In 1947‚ the Britains established a new form of government in Nigeria based on a system of three regions. The regions were Eastern (Ibo)‚ Western(Yoruba)‚ and
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“Our America” Jose Marti The essay “Our America” by Jose Marti is a magnificent work in which it encourage Latin America to realize that the human being is intelligent‚ wise and natural that tends to be mortified by the world. The world in this case North America and Europe‚ in their eagerness to conquer‚ they completely forget that Latin America is human beings of thought and ideals of our nature. Jose Marti tries to liberate Latin America from the oppression of the conquerors. He encourages
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the Aztecs convert‚ they believed that they were saving the Aztecs souls‚ so they could go to heaven and not endure hell. While Columbus and Cortes were converting the Aztecs and Native Americans‚ Francisco Pizarro was tackling the Incas. Pizarro’s men massacred the Incas and the ones that were saved were forced to convert to Christianity after Atahualpa was murdered. Many different explorers all had the same goal‚ convert the natives. As well as forcing Christianity onto the indigenous people‚ they
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1. How did humans come to settle in all parts of the Americas and in Oceania? The first large wave of migration from Siberia to Alaska but small numbers of migrants crossed the Bering land bridge by watercraft‚ sailing or drifting with the currents from NE Asia down the west coast of North America. By 9500 BCE they had reached the southernmost part of South America. At least 60‚000 years before the present human migrants entered Australia and New Guinea via watercraft – rafts or canoes fitted with
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This experience in battle was what let them butcher the Moriori people‚ who had no reason to fight with other groups‚ and no experience with war. They were also behind in technology‚ because everyone was hunting or gathering‚ instead of researching and building. The Incas and the Moriori are two prime examples of where Diamond’s theory explains why things turned out how they did. Some of the many flaws in Diamond’s argument are pointed out by J.R. McNeill‚ in his short essay‚ “The World According To Jared Diamond”
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Chapter 15 The West and the Changing Balance of Power Multiple-Choice Questions 1) Which of the following was NOT a symptom of decline in the Arabic caliphate by 1400? A) The narrowing of intellectual life symbolized by the triumph of religion over literature‚ philosophy‚ and science B) Landlords seized power over peasants C) The decline of the Sufis D) Decline of tax revenues for the state E) Landlords ceased to experiment with new agricultural techniques. 2) By what date had the Arabs
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