Henry the Navigator in the Age of Exploration Prince Henry was born in Portugal in 1394. He was the third son of King John I. In the year of 1415‚ Henry helped his two brothers attack the port of Ceuta in Morocco. This inspired him to explore the unknown of South Africa. In the Algarve‚ Henry constructed his own school of navigation on a promontory called Sagres that juts out into the sea between Cape St. Vincent and Lagos bay. Prince Henry set up this school‚ so that there would be a place where
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In The Moor’s last Sigh’‚ we witness a reeling pageant of mad passions and dark secrets‚ deep crimes and high art‚ poignant innocence and cruel revenge‚ hopping in a careful‚ calculated manner across four generations of a rich and demented Indian family. Salman Rushdie’s cynical post-modernistic novel The Moor’s Last Sigh’ laughs mischievously at the world and shivers from its evils. It is also‚ by analogy‚ one version of the history of India in the 20th century. Weaving a tale of murder and suicide
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Social 1. 1503 – The Encomienda was a system that allowed the Spanish to use forced labor. This allowed the Spain to grow rapidly and eventually led to the slave trade in America 2. Hidalgos were Spanish minor nobles who sought adventure and wealth in the New World. They allowed the Spanish settlements in America to grow and inspired others to travel to the New World 3. Peninsulares were Spanish born settlers living in the New World at the summit of the Colonial class system. They were favored by
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The cross-cultural encounter between Europe and Africa began as Europe aggressively initiated an era of exploration of Africa south of the great savanna. Europe’s curiosity‚ exploration and greed transformed the history of African people. In the study of the cultural history of Africa‚ much innovation has been attributed to outside origins and influences. Historians and archaeologists have learned a great deal about the developments that emerged from the European influence in Africa. The age of exploration
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14th century. The Cheras collapsed after repeated attacks from the neighboring Chola and Rashtrakuta kingdoms. Feudal Namboothiri Brahmin and Nair city-states subsequently gained control of the region. Contact with Europeans after the arrival of Vasco Da Gama in 1498 gave way to struggles between colonial and native interests. By early 16th century‚ the Portuguese established their domination. They were defeated by the Dutch in 1663‚ who in turn were forced out of the land by the British East India
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fifteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ a countless number of European explorers navigated the globe in search of new lands and new treasures. The era‚ known as The Age of Discovery‚ gave fame to some of history’s greatest seafarers—Ferdinand Magellan‚ Vasco da Gama‚ and John Cabot to name but a few. Of all the great explorers‚ though‚ none are as celebrated as Christopher Columbus—the man who “discovered” America. The Making of an Explorer‚ 1451-92—Beginnings Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa‚ Italy
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INTRODUCTION In 1450 to 1750 Western Europe started their quest for oversea exploration and economic expansion. Exploration changed the society‚ with economic growth‚ first by discovering a new way to reach the trading center in India and then by conquering and colonizing the new world. There were many goals for early Spanish exploration from 1492-1548 and early English exploration from 1584-1648. Many goals of the early explorations of both the English and the Spaniards included economic prosperity
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world. One event was the Industrial Revolution in England‚ which spread over to the other countries in the Europe too. Industrial revolution led the discovery of new sea and trade routes. Sea route to India was discovered by the Portuguese called Vasco Da Gama in 1498. As the result the English‚ Dutch‚ French and the Portuguese came to India for trade. The company’s role in India was of trading corporation which brought goods into India and exchanged them for Indians goods like textiles and spices.
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Those innocent spice jars sitting in your cupboard don’t do much to reveal their incredible history. But did you know that nutmeg was once worth more by weight than gold? And also‚ in the 16th century‚ London dockworkers were paid their bonuses in cloves? That in 410 AD‚ when the Visigoths captured Rome‚ they demanded 3‚000 pounds of peppercorns as ransom? In its day‚ the spice trade was the world’s biggest industry: it established and destroyed empires‚ led to the discovery of new continents‚ and
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In music‚ homophony (pron.: /hɵˈmɒfəni/; Greek: ὁμόφωνος‚ homóphōnos‚ from ὁμός‚ homós‚ "same" and φωνή‚phōnē‚ "sound‚ tone") is a texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony‚ the relationship between them creating chords. This is distinct from polyphony‚ in which parts move with rhythmic independence‚ and monophony‚ in which all parts (if there are multiple parts) move in parallel rhythm and pitch. A homophonic texture is alsohomorhythmic[1] (or uses a "very similar rhythm").[2] However
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