1 America’s early history 1.1 Explorers and conquerors In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus‚ seeking a shorter sea route to India‚ discovered the New World. Within a short time‚ soldiers‚ explorers and settlers came from Europe to take over control of the land from the Indians - The Spanish: conquered Mexico‚ Peru and other South American areas The Portuguese: were establishing themselves in Brazil. - They had come in search of gold and other riches‚ but at the beginning of the 17th century they
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the island where they opened doors to prison cells. Hoping to find object of their pursuit among the malefactors. They ended up returning to Rio from their cruise only remembered by the serious smallpox disease that killed some of their crew. They joined the main military unit at that port with Commodore Renshaw
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION The beginning at the Atlantic coast of Northern America was necessary to English possession in 1607.v When first of colonies – Virginia has been based. Its founders were merchants from the London trading company. On the courts the company transported in a colony of poor men‚ sold itself is temporary in debt servitude and worked in a colony under supervision of inspectors of the company. For ocean from England the puritans oppressed by government
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meant that the people are the nation. Since most nation- states were home to more than one group of people claiming national status‚ Nationalism is often associated with war or a struggle to national liberation‚ as seen in the case of the German Confederation and the Congress of Vienna. Instead of struggling and competing against other states‚ the European states should focus and concentrate on their common interests and goals. Parallel to the ongoing nationalism in Germany‚ similar movements were
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Tilley recruited such former opponents as Chandler and Gray as well as discarded colleagues such as Fisher. The exclusion of Smith has never been fully explained. Perhaps he would not have joined. It is more likely that he was not invited because he was so completely opposed to any union scheme as well as to the Intercolonial Railway‚ which Tilley saw as the prize of negotiations. At any rate‚ by the time Tilley had returned from the ambulatory
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(Cassils & Ward‚ 2001) Accepting the common thought that Canada is a lightly populated country‚ most Canadians have concluded that the problem of overpopulation is a concern of other places and not them. However‚ the numbers say otherwise. Since Confederation‚ the Canadian population has grown very quickly. It rose from 3‚463‚000 in 1867 to 31‚000‚000 in 2001. (Statistics Canada‚ 2002) The following chart shows this rise in population and its occurrence in each province. Statistics Canada (2002)
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until a year before his death. 3- In 1954 Abdul Rahman led a delegation to London to seek independence for Malaya. 4- Forming a political alliance with the Malayan Chinese Association(MCA) representing Chinese community.The Alliance was later joined by the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC) in 1955‚ representing the Indian community. 5- The formation of Malaysia was one of Abdul Rahman’s greatest achievements.He was the principal architect of the alliance of Malaya with Singapore‚Sarawak and Sabah
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The concept of regionalism has been used to show the social‚ economic‚ and political differences that exist between the regions of Canada since the days of confederation. Historically‚ Canada has developed in different manners depending on the location‚ leaving a region much different from another. One of the major reasons for this can be seen through the geography of this country. The natural land forms which are present in Western Canada‚ such as the prairies‚ are much different from say the
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Tiffany Baker October 22‚ 2011 Period 0 Chapter 9 Outline The Confederation and the Constitution I. The Pursuit of Equality A. Fight of separation of church and state with the Congregational Church‚ and the Anglican Church. 1. The Anglican Church struggled for divorce between religion and government. 2. Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. B.
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- The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons (Uri ‚ Schwyz ‚ Nidwalden) . It signed a Charter to keep public peace and the anniversary of Charter sign today is celebrated as Swiss National holiday . Other localities also joined the Swiss Confederation (already containing three cantons) and by continuously expanding their borders by military means ‚ gained its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. After that Swiss confederation has become a
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