Social Studies Mehdi Mihir Tuesday‚ September 16‚ 2014 729 The World before the Opening of the Atlantic At the start‚ of the Ice Age‚ earth’s climate became intensely cold. Large amounts of water froze into huge‚ moving sheets of ice called glaciers. Abruptly‚ in c. 38‚000-10‚000 BC‚ the Paleo- Indians moved as nomadic bands across to the Americas in response to the rhythm of the seasons and the availability of the resources. Thereafter
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Brazil o Spread t Caribbean • There was Spanish‚ Friend‚ English‚ Dutch islands o 80% of slaves will end up Brazil and Caribbean o America is looked at in Europe for recourses • Cash Crops Silver was BIG • More of it so it can be used for world currency • All Spanish o Sugar was mostly Portugal but not the Caribbean • Potsoi Mines in Bolivia (Andes) o Huge city miserable conditions for the Incas o Repartimiento – continuations of the Mita. BUT WORSE? Instead for government for Spanish
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Technology‚ Demography‚ and the Environment 1450-1750 The main trend relating to technology‚ demography‚ and the environment from 1450 to 1750 are … Some of the most influential new technologies were guns‚ improved shipbuilding‚ and better navigational devices. The invention of guns would forever change the way wars were fought. Instead of swords‚ bows and arrows‚ or lances‚ guns would emerge as the dominant global weapon. They were lighter than cannons and more efficient than bows and arrows.
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dramatic change in America from 1850 to 1900. Before there were Progressives there were Populists. The Populist tried to bring to light the issues facing our country. They attempted to do this by gaining control of the governing body and have a President elected. The Progressives would succeed where they had not. Progressives were not the people of big business‚ they were the common people. Urban‚ Northeastern‚ educated‚ middle-class men and women that come together under an ideal of change the direction
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If you could change the world‚ what would you do? I have heard people give answers like the following: “I would start a foundation that will eradicate child labor‚ provide homes for street kids and ensure every child gets quality education.” “I would change the way politics is done in Nigeria. I would make it true democracy: government by the people and for the people.” “I would change Nollywood. I would raise the bar‚ make great movies that will be nominated for Oscar awards.” “I would put Nigeria
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Africa and the Atlantic world explores the trials and tribulations of Africans being forced from their homeland and sold into slavery. Africans endured such hardships and conditions that their souls vanished with the site of mother Africa. Europeans sold and forced slaves to cultivate sugar plantations for their own profits. The Americas‚ Europe and Africa were involved in a cross continental system of human trafficking. African men‚ woman and children were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas
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Evaluate critically the impact of socio-cultural factors that have influenced the growth and development of association football from 1850 to today. The 1850’s saw drastic changes to most of Britain‚ the major change being the huge increase in urbanisation which was key to the development of association football. This was because the people of the urbanising areas ended up being in small spaces for the sheer number of people there was. This was only enhanced by the movement of rural-urban migration
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e effect of Saint Domingue’s decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets‚ from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic
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Columbus’s voyage to America and triumphant return signaled the beginning of a new era of exploration. Likewise‚ Prince Henry the Navigator’s expeditions along the West African coast led to increased trade with Africa. Long isolated from the rest of the world‚ the Native Americans’ lives were drastically changed by the presence of European explorers‚ and later‚ colonists. Some aspects of life‚ such as domination by the elite in Europe‚ trade in Africa‚ and Native American ways of life in the Americas‚ have
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