has been debate that the Polynesians came from either South America or Asia. Both linguists and archaeologists have found evidence that confirms that they originated from Asia. Scientists researching mtDNA have also backed up these findings. As the ancestors of the Polynesians journeyed across the Pacific their culture changed during isolation. The Polynesians last migration was to New Zealand. New Zealand’s climate and landscape was very different from the tropical Polynesia Islands‚ this also led
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≈11000 BC – The final glacier of the last ice age retreated from Wisconsin‚ leaving behind lakes and rivers as well as tundra suitable for large animals such as the wooly mammoth‚ mastodons‚ bison‚ and muskox. ≈10000 BC – Wisconsin’s first known inhabitants‚ the Paleo-Indian people‚ are thought to have arrived from the west and south. The Paleo-Indians were nomadic‚ moving frequently to follow large animal migrations. 8500-6000 BC – As forests continued to emerge‚ big game species moved northward
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CHAPTER-3: Colonization and Conflict in the South‚ 1600-1750 CHAPTER OVERVIEW Instead of becoming havens for the English poor and unemployed‚ or models of interracial harmony‚ the southern colonies of seventeenth-century North America were weakened by disease‚ wracked by recurring conflicts with Native Americans‚ and disrupted by profit-hungry planters’ exploitation of poor whites and blacks alike. Many of the tragedies of Spanish colonization and England’s conquest of Ireland were repeated
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Capitalism was a significant movement from the long nineteenth century whose impact and influence changed the way people lived. Throughout the period of 1750-1918 new ideas started to emerge because of imperialism. The more land and houses means more population then that results in more supply and demand. Capitalism in the period of 1850-1918 had a great impact on capitalism today‚ it changed the way people live. My hypothesis is correct because the events that occurred‚ for example the industrial
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Steel Industry The iron and steel industry drove the American Industrial Revolution and propelled America into a world economic power. Did You Know? The word "luddite" refers to a person who is opposed to technological change. The term is derived from a group of early 19th century English workers who attacked factories and destroyed machinery as a means of protest. They were supposedly led by a man named Ned Ludd‚ though he may have been an apocryphal figure. Contents * Britain: Birthplace
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Africa‚ and the Americas collided in the fifteenth century. The interest in economic growth in Europe‚ an abundance of resources in the Americas‚ and the availability of slaves in Africa created a perfect storm that interrupted some continuities from before. Africa was a patriarchal society. As they participated in the slave trade the male population dropped because of the high demand of male slaves in the Americas. This caused a gender imbalance in Africa‚ forcing many of the male roles and
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Change and Continuity Over Time Essay Topic: Analyze the changes and continuities in labor systems between 1750 and 1914 in RUSSIA. Beginning Middle End |1750-1860 |1860-1914 |1900-1914 | |1762-1796: Catherine II the Great
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St. Louis‚ Missouri is one of the up and coming cities in the United States at the beginning of the 1900s. The city has experienced incredible growth following the end of the Civil War‚ people from all over the United States‚ and the world in general‚ have flocked to this new industrial superpower. St. Louis donned the honor of being the fourth largest city in the United States in 1900 with a population of 575‚238. Having a population of that size brought a large amount of diversity into the city
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In the period between 1450 and 1750‚ Japan underwent many changes in its political and social structure. After a period of chaos‚ a powerful family rose up and took control of the nation‚ establishing a new Shogunate and bringing a period of peace and stability to Japan. In the 1450s‚ Japan was a place of turmoil and unrest. Angered by the high rents they had to pay‚ peasants began revolting against their lords. To quell this chaos‚ the lords began hiring samurai to put down the rebellions.
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The period of 1492-1750 opened up new worlds and old worlds to a world of growing interdependence and connectivity. This era was home to the discovery and subsequent European colonization of the Americas and the African slave trade. Both being remarkable and profound on three regions: Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas. The communication expanded the economies of all three regions while damaging the social structures of Africa and forging new social structures in the Americas. By 1492
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