Colonization and Maritime Navigation COLONISATION As Greece is comprised of many islands‚ the sea has always played an important role in its history. Colonization of surrounding areas began during the Geometric Period (900-700 BCE)‚ and continued throughout Archaic and Classical Greece. Starting around 700-600 BCE the more powerful Greek city states gradually began establishing colonies‚ first in the Mediterranean‚ and then all the way from western Asia Minor‚ to southern Italy‚ Sicily‚ North
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Social and Economic Impacts of Hurricanes on the Caribbean Hurricanes are powerful weather systems‚ which start as disturbances in the atmosphere over tropical oceans. There are many of these disturbances each year‚ but only a few become hurricanes. Most Atlantic and Caribbean hurricanes occur between June and November and have been known to have serious economic and social consequences. Some economic consequences include unemployment‚ loss of revenue‚ loss of foreign exchange etc. Social consequences
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When the Europeans first arrived in the late 1400s‚ they brought with them the intent of not only exploring to find India‚ but also to find gold and much more wealth. The Europeans made a mistake in their navigation causing them not to arrive in India‚ but rather what they referred to as the “New World.” The Europeans had stumbled upon the Native Peoples that occupied that place. The Native Peoples were soon to become overpowered and eventually become slaves of the Europeans. With the Europeans now being
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The Economic Impact of European Integration Nearly half of the century ago we couldn’t imagine Europe as it is right now. At the time it seemed to be utopia for some idealists. Nevertheless‚ there were some talks on the “United States of Europe”. However‚ no one could dream about the European Union. Last decades have shown us how far countries can give up their own interests in order to withstand as one unity. The EU as we know now is an ambiguous system that doesn’t fall neither for state structure
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Impact of Societal Institutions On Caribbean Culture and Society Objectives • Gain a thorough understanding of the different social institutions: family‚ education‚ political systems • Understand the main ideas of the Marxist and Functionalist perspectives • Understand the Marxist and perspective on social institutions Functionalist Social Institutions • Social Institutions are a fundamental part of the operations of society. They are the major organising framework in social life. Social institutions
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European Imperialism started in the early 1800’s; with the goal to prove they had wealth and power. European nations competed with each other to gain territory in Africa. The more they gain the more powerful they thought they would become. Africa was soon bled of it’s human resources. The Europeans induced slavery for the beneift of the Muslim countries‚ from the nineth century to the nineteenth century. The last four centuries of which were regular slave trade to help the Americas and the
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The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population
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The Colonisation of the Dark and Archaic Ages By *************** The colonisation during the Dark and Archaic ages‚ as well as developments made during these ages was very beneficial to the development of Ancient Greece. This hypothesis is supported by five key facts‚ Colonisation provided a solution to overpopulation‚ allowed for new skills and techniques to be learnt from other cultures‚ as well as a general broadening of knowledge‚ the development of the city-state or “polis” and the
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The British Colonisation of Australia Timeline: The Aboriginal Australian species originated from Africa approximately 200‚000 years ago and migrated to Asia 70‚000 years ago then continued to Australia 50‚000 years ago. Before 1788 only the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders‚ populated Australia. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea
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ABSTRACT: The importance of an efficient and effective Caribbean in the delivery of economic and social development is a long-standing theme of development policy. This however has not always been the case and the result is a Caribbean repeating past mistakes and compromising in some cases the theme of the development strategy. Global recession has consistently tested the resolve of the Caribbean and to this end there is a need to address the factors that have consistently led to the economic
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