Question: Examine the importance of the slave trade to the development of the plantation economies. The slave trade was vital to the development of plantation economies‚ which could only expand and survive in the West Indies with the use of slave labour. The slave trade brought enslaved Africans from Africa to colonies in the West Indies‚ which had begun to take part in the "sugar Revolution" starting in 1640. The plantation system which essentially is the organization of agriculture on a large
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which was to be the protector of trade routes‚ it also formed foundations that were remaining from its predecessors. Around the 11th century‚ the rulers decided to convert to Islam. One of the important rulers of The Kingdom of Mali was Sundiata‚ he ruled the kingdom from 1230 to 1255. Sundiata expanded the kingdom by conquering the neighbors of the kingdom and afterwards ended up creating a new capital in Niani and then later on ended up having power on the Saharan trade routes. Due
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declining cost of communications as a result of both technological improvements and increased competition. Today‚ innovations in information technology are having wide-ranging effects across society so‚ Choices made now will have long lasting consequences‚ and attention must be paid to their social and economic impacts. With the Internet‚ e-commerce is rapidly expanding into a fast-moving‚ open global market with an ever-increasing number of participants. The open and global nature of e-commerce is likely
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Focus on Risk Management 1 Sustainability Costs Global operations Operations challenges Supply & demand volativity New product introductions NEW Don’t Play it Safe When it Comes to Supply Chain Risk Management Accenture Global Operations Megatrends Study + 2 Focus on Risk Management Costs Sustainability Operations challenges + Global operations Supply & demand volativity New product introductions NEW Focus on Risk Management 3
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many reasons why the abolition of the slave trade took place and many people have their own opinion on it including historians who may have the same opinion but‚ have their different thoughts. In some way of the other everyone had at least had one view on why the abolition should take place and why it shouldn’t on the other hand‚ some people just wanted to benefit and make more profit and therefore‚ chose to go against the idea of abolishing the slave trade and slavery itself. There are many views
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Introduction: Namibia is small flourishing country located in the south west of Africa. Its surrounding neighbors are Angola‚ Botswana‚ South Africa‚ and the South Atlantic Sea. The country is very young‚ and was recently liberated from foreign and South African rule‚ and was formerly known as South West Africa. Compared to all of its neighbors Namibia has an extremely low unemployment rate of 5.3%‚ and a GDP per capita of 7‚500 USD. Even though the country appears to have a high per capita GDP
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of dances but did you ever hear of the West African dance form? If you haven’t then we will tell you about‚ if you have then you will learn more about it. African dance refers mainly to the dance of Sub Saharan Africa‚ and more appropriately African dances because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance utilizes the concept of polyrhythm
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Atlantic Computers As Jason Jowers‚ product manager at Atlantic Computers‚ I am responsible for developing the pricing strategy of the new Atlantic Bundle. Atlantic Computers is a large manufacturer of servers and other high tech products. In our server industry‚ there are two main market segments and until now our company has only focused on one. The largest market segment is devoted to the high performance servers that traditionally are meant to run complex application such as scientific
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-Religion of West African Kingdoms- The West African kingdoms that arose in the early to middle part of the second millennium were very interesting peoples with unique ways of life. There were many different aspects of daily life that were important to these great kingdoms. Art‚ family and culture were all very rich and important to theses peoples. However‚ one of the main aspects of daily life was religion. Since ancient times‚ there have been many ceremonies and customs practiced by African people
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West African trading kingdoms The achievements of the West African trading kingdoms were very successful. The 3 major trading kingdoms: Mali‚ Ghana‚ and Songhai were very successful in trading salt‚ gold‚ and animal products. The Niger River was had a big impact on the success of the kingdom’s trading. Mansa Musa was the king of Mali. He was the leader of trading salt. The 3 trading kingdoms were very successful before the Europeans came. The western trading kingdoms were successful
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