Obituary: Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain‚ who has died aged 61‚ was a French navigator and soldier. He is important to Canadian history because he helped establish the settlements. He founded New France and Quebec City as well. Early experience In 1604‚ he was made an assistant to the Sieur de Monts‚ who was a French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. In the summer of 1605‚ de Monts‚ Champlain and approximately sixty settlers and established a small
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shore "suggested luxury‚ wealth‚ skilled artisans and thriving craft industries" which people brought from overseas‚ these images of other countries led European started long journey.(Arnold 11) In the exploration‚ Prince Henry who was called "the navigator led the role because he sent people to Africa every
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• The search for a homeland for the French protestants • Wealth • Build an empire • Gain European power • Export American goods • To gain new rights and status Who? • Explorers • Navigators • Huguenots (French protestants which were skilled and well-educated) • Families • French Catholics • Traders • Small amount of soldiers and military commanders • Young women at the marriageable age Other • The French failed many times to establish
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Chinese discover the Americas before Columbus? Menzies takes on a voyage where he tries to find evidence to support his thesis and comes up with several different theories; his first stop: Calicut. Menzies claims that the Ming dynasty’s famous navigator Zheng He managed to reach the cape of good hope and from there he should have reached the Americas too. Gavin also claims that a famous Italian writer of the time‚ Nicolo ’ Di Conti‚ might have made contact with Zheng ’s fleet in Calicut and might
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Indian Ocean were connected trade‚ the agents of globalization. In East Africa‚ Persian Gulf‚ India‚ Southeast Asia‚ China mainly known as Africa and Asia. Portugal invented slavery in the 13th to 14th century. Vasco de Gama is the explorer and navigator‚ and the first person to sail directly from Europe to India. He led a foundation named the Portuguese Presence in the Indian Ocean. Portuguese forced their way in trade and demanded ships and to have a license because countries wanted to control
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taking on an anticompetitive means to keep a monopoly in the operating system market. The District Court’s judgment that Microsoft violated Sec. 2 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully trying to monopolize the Internet browser market to contain Netscape’s Navigator browser and Sun’s Java technologies browser‚ was reversed. The judgment that Microsoft violated Sec. 1 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully tying its browser to its operating system was kept in place. Microsoft was ultimately ordered to be split into
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compass. Quickly after the age of exploration began the Portugese had built plantations and trading posts in West African‚ discovered a new sea route to India‚ and made Africa their home. Prince Henry organized a school for navigation and taught navigators how to develop and use new sailing innovations. Then in 1492‚ Columbus became the first European to reach the Americas‚ and later brought other Europeans to establish colonies in the Americas. This is what led to slavery in the Americas. Columbus
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that Noonan was an excellent navigator; the Marshall islands are more than 800 miles northwest of their original destination of Howland Island. He would not have deviated so far off course‚ unless they were spying (with‚ as mentioned earlier‚ equipment there was no room for on the plane)‚ or he was drunk‚ which some have speculated was the case. However‚ Earhart would not have been so foolish as to embark on the largest leg of their journey with an inebriated navigator‚ a position requiring full
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1991 - World-Wide Web (WWW) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee and released by CERN. 1993 - The first Web browser called Mosaic was created by student Marc Andreesen and programmer Eric Bina at NCSA in the first 3 months of 1993 1994 - Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released Dec. 1994‚ and was given away free‚ soon gaining 75% of world browser market. 1996 - Microsoft failed to recognized the importance of the Web‚ but finally released the much imporoved browser Explorer 3.0 in the summer. 1998-Microsoft
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Navigators and map-makers alike believed that in order to travel from their location – the Eastern Hemisphere‚ to the Western Hemisphere one should sail east. However‚ Christopher Columbus’ 1492 accidental voyage disproved this belief since he travelled due west into the Western Hemisphere. Upon his return to Spain‚ map-makers and navigators alike realized the importance of this discovery. It not only meant that sailors
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