The voyage to the new land was quite a challenge with harsh conditions they faced over a period of 5 or more months. Dangerous‚ long‚ and never ending is what many would describe it if we were in their place. Two groups of different people embarked on the same voyage to the new land which were Jamestown and the Plymouth Plantation. What distinguished each other was what kind of person they hold as a leader‚ how they worked together as a group‚ and their purpose of traveling there. In the beginning
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The world’s first atomic bomb was transported to Guam by the former flagship of the American Pacific Fifth Fleet‚ the USS Indianapolis. The bomb was brought aboard the ship on July 15th 1945‚ while she was anchored in San Francisco Bay. At 8:00 a.m. The following morning the USS Indianapolis left San Francisco bound for Tinian with the atomic bomb‚ something that would cause so much devastation and go down in history. Of the crew aboard that morning 883 of 1‚199 will have perished in two weeks. The
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“lost opportunity of the time and season to plant by the unskillful presumption of our ignorant transporters.”(p. 84) The voyage to the new land made smith gain knowledge on how to plan for future voyages. The Englishmen were not expecting this much hard work to survive on the new land. The soldiers arrive extremely weak and sick from the challenges of hunger and disease on the voyage. There was no shelter or food for the soldiers when they arrived. “Some of the Indians welcomed them with hospitality
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The Purpose The intended audience for Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey is a wide one. Homer was a bard and he would go to noblemen’s parties and tell this story for entertainment‚ the gusts would go back home and tell their families the stories‚ the servants would over hear while serving and spread them as well to other servants and maids. Homer was far from being the only person to tell his stories and people are still reading them in the 21st century. Because the story was well known and told by
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Global Exploration and Global Empires 1500-1700 By: A Case Assignment Module 1 [Course:] HIS101 TUI University Ms. Date: 11/11/2013 The early voyages by the Portuguese and Spanish were motivated by gold‚ trade and the spread of the Catholic faith through religious conversion. The voyages of a few adventurers show that the Spanish and Portuguese goals were to spread Catholicism‚ expand trade‚ and expand the kingdom of the Spanish and the Portuguese to the new lands they’ve discovered
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CELTA Language Analysis Written assignment 2 N.B. Please write legibly in black ink or type. Content carries the most weight‚ but you are also marked on clarity‚ accuracy (e.g. grammar‚ spelling‚ punctuation) and presentation (see CELTA criteria). Please read the shaded boxes to see the marking criteria. If your assignment does not meet the specified criteria‚ you will be asked to resubmit it. If the second submission is not satisfactory you will be awarded a fail grade. More than one
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named Mary Catherine des Granches. France sponsored Cartier for his voyages. He was sponsored by King Francis. Cartier’s first voyage was in 1534. Cartier was searching for a western route to Asia. During his first voyage he explored parts of Newfoundland and discovered new species of birds. On May 19 He set his second voyage with three ships and 110 men and two natives. They discovered the St. Lawrence River. During this voyage‚ he met the friendly Iroquois Indians who had scurvies then passed
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the largest ships in the world and twenty seven thousand men‚ sailing to more than thirty countries around the Indian Ocean and the South China seas‚ including Sri Lanka‚ India‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ Vietnam‚ Kenya and Tanzania. Zheng He led seven voyages with the idea to explore and not conquer. However‚ Zheng He was not always known as China’s greatest seafaring explorer he became it. It began in China’s Yunnan province‚ for ten years he had grown and lived there until 1382 when three hundred thousand
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bartolomeu dias Early Life Why on earth would a person sail around the southernmost tip of Africa without modern sailing technology such as GPS? Bartolomeu Dias was such a person to accomplish his great voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. He was born in Portugal around 1450 and was a Portuguese navigator and explorer and was known as the first European who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa and reached the Cape of Good Hope. Bartolomeu Dias’ achievement had ultimately led to expansion
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a leader of the Renaissance and a benefactor to modern science. The results of his voyage around the globe were such that the average person living during the Renaissance re-thought their paradigms of the world surrounding them‚ even know most scholars and other educated types knew that in fact‚ the world was round in shape. Ferdinand‚ however‚ proved it. Thus he lays claim to having circumnavigated the first voyage around the world. Born 1480 to lesser nobles living near Vila Real in northern Portugal
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