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    America should colonize South America because the American economy will be better off‚ and it will give America the chance to get more natural resources. America should colonize South America will increase America’s economy. South America is home to one-quarter of the world’s iron‚ which was valued at approximately $26.9 billion in 2009 (South America: Resources‚ N/D). If America has control of one-quarter of the world’s copper they will not have to buy as much from other nations‚ so America will

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    Contrast the views of Europeans of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with those of Native Americans and Africans they encountered on such topics as the environment‚ social relations‚ religious beliefs‚ and slavery. Which group do you consider "savage/ "heathen/ or "barbarian"? Explain. 3) What factors contributed to the rise of modern Europe and an age of expansionism from 1000 to 1600 C. E.? Contrast the political and economic changes in England with those of her European counterparts during this

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    their research before trying to sail off to the New World‚ with people’s hopes held high. Their first and most important reason was that moving to the New World would help them achieve religious freedom because in England‚ they were persecuted if they believed in another religion. For people that weren’t concerned with the religion issue could have been merchants going to try and become wealthy off trade. And the poor were planning on going to start a new‚ better life in the New World by farming

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    America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms‚ it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” -Abraham Lincoln- In the last few years‚ Abraham stopped slavery. That helped our country in so many different ways! Black people now have so many freedoms since Abraham Lincoln was a good man‚ and realized‚ that slavery was not very good‚ at all. We‚ people this time in our lives‚ black or white‚ now have a lot of freedoms. Some of these freedoms

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    Many things were happening in the South during the 1800’s and the mid 1800’s. Like for instance the cotton gin. In the early 1800’s the South was the number one producer of cotton in America. But then the north started to produce more cotton then the south and soon enough the souths production of cotton stopped. But the south sure did love there slaves. The slaves in the South got to work on plantations and the free slaves in the north worked in factory’s. Late into the 1800’s the slaves were put

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    Most people believe that Christopher Columbus was the first European ever to set foot on North America. That belief changed when in 1963 a group of archaeologists found 1‚000 year old Viking artifacts on the tip of Newfoundland‚ where it is known as L’Anse aux Meadows. Over 2‚000 Viking objects were found and they uncovered a Viking-like settlement. Leif Erikson is believed to be the first European to discover North America‚ almost 500 years before Columbus did‚ and is much known for his exploring

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    reasons for European exploration. As Europes demand for Eastern goods grew Europeans began to search for new trading routes to reduce the expenses. Another reason for exploration was the arrival of Marco Polo. When he returned from China‚ he came back with stories of the East. In addition‚ each empire wanted to expand its empire and acquire colonies and gold in order to fulfill the imperialism principle‚ which stated that a strong empire must have the most bullion or silver. Moreover‚ Europeans also set

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    In North America‚ white female and black male sexuality became central to the development of its racial caste system. The European settlers brought ambiguity towards sex from conflicting ideologies of middle class urban values and traditional sexual freedoms to their frontiers. Fredrickson alluded to Shakespeare’s Othello‚ which he argued showed that "blacks [were] used to symbolize tensions or anxieties that they had little or no role in creating" even before the colonialization.2 In the North American

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    better said‚ continents‚ like South and North America‚ were not always like they look now. There was no countries‚ no big cities‚ and no civilized life. There was only native tribes and nature. What we look now is product of what it’s called "colonization". Of course‚ none of the two pieces of the continent were colonized in the same way. First‚ I am going to explained how was the colonization in the USA‚ and then the colonization in South America. North America‚ XVII century. It all started

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    and the rise of the different powers in Latin America. The Authors Bakewell and Escosura both wrote about the shifts in power from the Europeans to the independence of Latin America. Everything starting with the Bolivar movement‚ when Simon Bolivar wanted to free his country of the Spanish control in Venezuela. These movements showed that the Latin American people had enough of the European control in their land. They wanted to have their own freedom and power over their countries‚ making them cause

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