animals and calamities of nature but also from their fellow-men. Another reason for man’s travelling far and wide has been his love and curiosity for new knowledge regarding places and people. Thus we had travellers like Marco Polo‚ Columbus‚ Vasco de Gama‚ Hiuen Tsang‚ Fahien and others. Some people travelled for love of adventure. Alexandoij wanted to conquer the whole world. Changez Khan conquered lands for the love of adventure. Some conquerors like Mahmuil Ghaznavi invaded India in the name
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Beginnings of America: • Nearly 12‚000-14‚000 years ago / 9000 BC migrations reached the southern tip of South America / 15th century AD = contact with Europeans -> brought with them diseases (smallpox) ended in: demographic catastrophe‚ weakened societies‚ aided Spanish/ Portuguese exploration America before Columbus: • Adaptation to surroundings = nomadic bands‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ agriculture -> created civilizations • Population: a lot more people
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Discovery of the Route to India After Vasco da Gama left Malindi with his hired navigator‚ his next stop was the Indian subcontinent. He had become the first European to reach India by sea. He arrived a few hundred miles south of present day Goa. Unfortunately his success was also met by a bit of defeat too. The goods that da Gama brought with him where not in demand in India at all. The native peoples of the area were hostile to these outsiders and thus da Gama was forced to return to Portugal with
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An economy or economic system consists of the production‚ distribution or trade‚ and consumption of limited goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location. The economic agents can be individuals‚ businesses‚ organizations‚ or governments. Transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service‚ commonly expressed in a certain currency. In the past‚ economic activity was theorized to be bounded by natural resources‚ labor‚ and capital
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Islam in the 1600s: Changes in Wealth and Power All three of the major Islamic kingdoms lost power and influence in the spice trade with the onset of European commerce and naval adventurism. We have already seen that the Ottoman Empire began to exploit its control of the lucrative spice trade routes‚ sometimes refusing to trade with Europe and generally increasing the prices of the goods which were allowed to arrive in Europe. Not surprisingly‚ European ships sailing around Africa hurt Ottoman
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Rough Draft Hernan Cortes Hernan Cortes sailed the vast‚ deep‚ blue ocean throughout his life‚ searching for land‚ money and power. The astonishing leader born in Spain in 1485 developed many armies and navigated through rough terrain. To many people he was respected‚ although feared a good leader. Hernan Cortes was an accomplished conquistador who improvised leadership by overpowering the Aztecs‚ which affected the country of Mexico for their language and religion by spreading the culture of
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face of increasingly global financial and cultural trends” (pg. G-7). As people began buying and trading goods from other countries‚ globalization of trade and travel came to be also. It began back in the fourteen hundreds. Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gamma were two men in the late fourteen hundreds who began traveling back and forth from the Indies‚ creating a place for Europe that flourished
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A project on GOA tourism 2013 Divyanshu Sharan BBM(IB) div C 192 3/18/2013 introduction : goa Goa‚ a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India‚ the 25th State in the Union of States of India‚ was liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961. It was part of Union territory of Goa‚ Daman & Diu till 30 May 1987 when it was carved out to form a separate State. Goa covers an area of 3702 square kilometers and comprises two Revenue district viz North Goa and South Goa. Boundaries of Goa
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INTRODUCCIÓN Insalus S.A. es una empresa con sede en Tolosa que se dedica a la explotación de un manantial de agua mineral natural‚ envasado y comercialización de la misma. Insalus trabaja a nivel estatal‚ principalmente centrándose en el País Vasco. Para realizar una pequeña composición de lugar acerca de Insalus‚ a continuación citamos la descripción de la misma que se encuentra en su página web (www.insalus.es). “El manantial de Insalus se encuentra en el extremo occidental de los Pirineos
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento‚ KBE (born October 23‚ 1940 in Três Corações‚ Brazil)‚ best known by his nickname Pelé‚ is a former Brazilian football player. In his native Brazil‚ Pelé is hailed as a national hero for his accomplishments and contribution to the game‚[2] in addition to being officially declared the football ambassador of the world by FIFA and a national treasure by the Brazilian government. He is also acknowledged for his vocal support of policies to improve the social conditions of
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