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    Often overlooked in the story of Colonial Enlightenment and The Great Awakening is the unequivocally decisive role that it played in providing an encouragement to pursue a just and harmonious way of existence in life‚ such a way that would bring Republicanism to the forefront of Colonial Political debate. Whitefield speaks of the utter necessity to pursue a cause that you know to be righteous no matter the cost. When Whitefield states “and that their professing themselves to be his followers‚ would

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    Notes A.) Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations‚ converting them to Christianity‚ and incorporating them‚ along with enslaved and free Africans‚ into the Spanish colonial society. The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals

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    Colonial Capitalism: Changing Cultures and Lives    In the famous novel of Chinua Achebe entitled Things Fall Apart‚ it can be seen how colonialism has affected people and has managed to pull them apart in many directions that it even eventually destroyed relationships of families‚ friends and tribes. Colonialism affected people to the point that the life of the protagonist is destroyed and resulted to his own death. Evelyn Hongs’ Globalization and the Impact on Health a Third World View provides

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    Spanish Colonial Period Chapter Review Arch 117 Abegail Imee R. Enriquez 2012-68836 Spanish Colonial Period How does Spanish Colonial architecture reflect Filipino identity? Discuss the various building types and their relationship to pre-colonial architecture in your arguments. Spanish colonial architecture reflects Filipino identity mostly through the Religious Architecture. As what the world knows‚ Philippines is the only Catholic country in Southeast Asia; thus‚ most of our structures all

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    be laborers in this plantatin economy. As slavery began‚ the agriculturally based society escalated to higher production rates. However‚ after servants were seen as hostile‚ and became more likely to misbehave‚ laws were put in order that if "many times negroes... and other slaves unlawfully absent themselves from their masters... shall resist‚ runaway or refuse to deliver and surrender him or themselves to any person or persons...‚ it shall... be lawfull for such person and persons to kill and distroy

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    There are several social issues still resonating from the colonial period. Sexism‚ racism impoverish population are among the ones that stand out to me. It is no surprise that we are still experiencing oppression with in the vulnerable populations‚ because the system was set up to oppress certain individuals. According to the textbook in the Colonial period women lived within restrictive boundaries. They were expected to remain in the home and complete the “household” duties. the superior individual

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    Colonization DBQ Colonial America showed democratic growth socially and religiously‚ but was also undemocratic because of restrictions on some social groups and unequal politics. In the beginning of the American colonies‚ the people started creating new ways of government. One of these ways was democracy. The colonies were democratic because they began allowing the citizens to have a say in government (Doc 3). If the people did not like how their government was run they could produce their own

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    During the Enlightenment‚ American colonies and established European countries faced the difficulties of shifting economic system‚ religious system‚ and a shift in mindset. The monarchs of the European countries used enlightened ideas in order to advance. Colonization was at its peak and the rise of mercantilism and the price revolution broke its breaks. Due to the shifting economic structure‚ slaves were utilized as an alternative to paid laborers. This however‚ was not reasonable from the perspective

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    not very common in English colonies‚ later around 1700 this would change. One of the possible causes of it was the decrease of indentured servants in the colonies of Chesapeake and the Carolinas‚ in which the labor force was in high demand at that time. Captive Africans became easy to obtain due to the slave trading by merchants and ship owners in European countries. Europeans could purchase captives in African wars that they could later send as laborers to America. Also‚ it is mention that some

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    Colonial America was a very troubling and dangerous place‚ but these two chief countries were sought in on their ways. Those core values helped catapult them into the new world in search of freedom‚ food‚ and a source of income. England and France were two dominant countries‚ nonetheless they had their differences socially‚ economically‚ and politically which propelled them towards the new world. When the two nations began permanently settling in the new world the French colonies treated the native

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