The Middle Passage was the name for the route across the Atlantic Ocean‚ where African people had been captured and were taken as slaves to the Americas in the 1500s. It lasted for more than 400 years. The slaves were taken to work in sugar‚ coffee and cotton plantations. This essay is about the living conditions that the slaves suffered on the journey‚ the food they were given‚ the punishments that were used to control them‚ and the death and diseases on the boats. There were two types of ways
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The black death of the middle ages is today known as the bubonic plague. There have been three major outbreaks of the Black Death throughout history; the first outbreak was the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century‚ which Justinian survived. The second outbreak occurred in the fourteenth century‚ and killed approximately one-third of the human population at the time. The third outbreak of plague began in the mid-nineteenth century‚ and remained active until 1959 according to the World Health
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In the Middle Ages‚ women were supposed to be treated well by men. The men would have to follow the Code of Chivalry and meet all of the women’s needs to show her that she was just as important to them as their lord or duties. “Women worked at their farms and did housework‚ and the men had a bigger role in society than they did.” Men and women in wealthy communities had a greater equality than men and women in the lower class. The Code of Chivalry was not a code where you would have to follow the
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Taya Moore Mrs. Marinez English IV‚ 4th hour 4/24/16 Peasant Life In Medieval Times In the Middle Ages peasants life was hard and cruel. Serfs didn’t have many opportunities in life because of the impact religion had on society at this time. The Catholic Church had extreme power over peasants life‚ influenced their culture‚ and kept them at the bottom of society. Serfs went through multiple events that kept them low in society. At this time there was a type of government called feudalism
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Economic Changes of the Later Middle Ages Manorial Economy o Cashless- Exchange of goods and services o Localized- Little or no trade over long distances o Agricultural- land is wealth o Traditional- obligations and entitlements inherited The Decline of Manorialism o No longer localized- long distance trade reviews as distant regions depend upon one another. o Trade improves and different regions start to specialize‚ the regions in Europe depend on each other. o The wool trade-
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The Middle Ages was a time dominated by religion and the Catholic church. Paganism gradually began to be overtaken by Catholicism and Christianity. The churches influence began to work its way into nearly all the topics of the day‚ including Philosophy. As the teachings of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers were translated‚ the medieval church began to “Christianize” these philosophical teachings. This new Christianized philosophy would become known as Scholasticism‚ or scholastic theology: the
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103-13 5 December 2013 Function of the Aristocratic Family and Marriage in the Late Middle Ages Marriage and function of aristocratic families such as the Pastons in the late Middle Ages was key to the success of the family. Marriages in the later middle ages were important to the status of families during this time period due to the importance of both the husband and wife being involved in family affairs‚ from economics to things that need to be done in day to day life. Marriage also functioned
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In the Middle Ages‚ the poor peasants went hungry many times while the royalty ate well. Fifty percent of the people were poor as the rest was royalty. The poor cooked all there food themselves. The poor people would eat mainly barley. Sometimes they turned their barley into bread and sometimes into pancakes orpizzas. They also make barley porridge or they would make soup out of barley. The poor people didn’t have enough food because they didn’t have all lot money. The poor hunted for some of their
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1. Distinguish between power and authority Power is the ability to coerce or force someone to do your will even if in some cases they may not want to. Authority is the skill of making people willingly do your will. It also the right to give orders‚ enforce obedience or make decisions. 2. Compare and contrast the features of the leadership of bands‚ tribes‚ chiefdoms and state societies A chiefdom is a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based
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1.Distinguish between pidgins and creoles. Pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly used in situations such as trade‚ or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they live in (but where there is no common language between the groups). In addition‚ pidgins have a distinct set of characteristics that make them differ from the
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