him‚ was forced to take the long way around to avoid contact with enemies‚ but when he finally reached his destination was sent away by the king because he did not have the money to pay him. Ships were also an asset to Asian trading‚ carrying luxury items such as gold‚ tin and bronze; as well as glass beads informing us of trade in early Asia; specifically in the Intan shipwreck‚ we learned it was built from lash-lug method that allows the ship to end rather than break. Abraham bin Yuji‚ was a trader
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mid-1900s was the immense control it had over the economies and politics in Asia. Trade and production were tailored to serve colonial needs‚ and opposition to colonial rule was suppressed easily. In this context‚ claiming that colonialism was inevitable seems valid as Asian countries could neither resist colonial expansion‚ nor throw off the colonial yoke. However‚ when one considers the wider history of Asia‚ this claim falls apart. This is because there were time periods where colonialism was unachievable
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The number one argument is was slavery as horrifying as it is made out to be it left people with a long lasting effect. Some may argue no but this will explain to you why it is. There are four reasons for my thinking they are‚ that the people who owned the slaves were cruel and heartless‚ people were treated like they did not matter and like they were different and like they were animals and no one saw anything wrong with this‚ innocent people were being taken and hurt and even born into this‚ when
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Was Columbus’s discovery epochal? Many of us have grown up believing from our earliest school years that Christopher Columbus was the voyager who found America. In between the centuries several European explorers navigated around the world searching for treasures and new lands. Of all the explorers‚ Columbus is the most celebrated and acknowledged - for supposedly founding America in 1492. Columbus was born in Italy in 1452‚ of humble origins; he grew up surrounded by
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also very important because the pharaohs couldn’t run the government and make sure everything was running smoothly all by themselves. The tax payers did not own the properties or their land everything was owned by the pharaoh. Court systems They had court systems which rules applied. There was a higher court and a lower court. The higher court was made up of the pharaoh and the vizier. The lower court was made up of older people. The lower court would try to come to an agreement if you did not like
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Issue 2: Was the Settlement of Jamestown a Fiasco? Yes: Edmond Morgan builds an easy to understand case of explaining the initial failures of the Jamestown colony. He credits the failures to chaotic organization‚ laziness‚ the makeup of the population‚ and poor ideas for prosperity. Morgan argues that one reason for failure was a lack of organization. He states that Jamestown lacked leadership. The colonies government was made up of a council and a president. The president had virtually no authority
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What Happened on the Day I Was Born? 1. Allie means “warrior” and Morris means “Moorish” or “dark and swarthy”. 2. Events that happened on September 26th: a. 1969 - Abbey Road‚ the last recorded album by The Beatles‚ was released b. 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter. c. 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche‚ causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse. C2. Before the earthquake on
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Imperialism…Justified? The United States was justified in expanding its territory‚ influence‚ and power in the Westward Expansion because the country saw an opportunity and took it. In this expansion of the United States‚ the foreign policy of Manifest Destiny is present. Manifest Destiny is the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. One of the firs things that happen during the expansion to help prove that America was justified was that President Theodore
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particular significance‚ it alone brought forward a string of Republican Presidencies which changed the United States and set the stage for formal political parties. First of all‚ this was an election between the Federalists and Democrat-Repubilcans. John Adams was the Federalist President and his competitor was Thomas Jefferson‚ a Republican. The period leading up to the election has been recorded to be one of the ugliest‚ with each side demonizing the other in any way they could; Adams had been
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One of the most interesting questions in America is was the Civil War Inevitable. Could the North and South resolved their differences another way? Yes‚ if the federal government allowed the states to do whatever they wished and if the North and South did not care about each other the war would’ve never happened. The Heart of the conflict was that the states were originally independent. Slavery was one of the causes of the civil war. The South depended on slavery to fuel their economy. They had
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