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    Colonization of Mars

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    Colonization of Mars What does a planet need to have in order to support life? Earth is unique in our solar system because it is the only planet that is supporting life. Some scientists go so far as to say that the Earth is a “perfect planet” because it has features that are the perfect environment for living organisms; these features include our atmosphere‚ water‚ and a single moon. Earth is also in a place in our solar system where the Sun gives off the right amount of energy to drive the

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    SECTION 1 Before the Incas were colonised by the Spanish‚ they lived a simple life and followed their own structure of society. • Pyramid of Power • Religious beliefs • Housing • Food The Sapa Inca was at the top of the Incan Society. Sapa Inca meant ‘unique Lord’. The Incas believed the Sapa Inca descended from the sun god Inti. He was also treated with high respect. The ten royal family groups were below the Sapa Inca. They were one of the highest rankings in the Incan Society. The

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    What historical benefit did D-day have in history? If the allies did not succeed in D-day would Europe still be occupied by Hitler? The failure of D-day could have caused the Allies to lose in World War II. The idea of D-day was in process since March 9‚ 1942 when President Roosevelt said I am becoming interested in the established of a new front this summer on the European continent (Collier 8). With the idea of penetrating a very fortified German front the Allies had their hands full. The invasion

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    Spanish and early indigenous interactions from the mid 1500’s until the early 1600’s played a significant role in how Latin American culture is shaped today. The Spanish conquests of hundreds of indigenous tribes such as the Mayan‚ Aztecs‚ and the people of the Andean mountain range led to an inevitable clash of traditional indigenous cultures and what Europeans considered to be an established and civilized culture of the Spanish Empire. Through primary sources such as Catalina Erauso’s‚ Lieutenant

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    Young People Have It Easy

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    In source a it is discussing the trench warfare and it tells us that soliders did such as manning the fire-step . source b supports this by showing a British solider manning the fire step‚ source b also supported source a because in source a it says ‘night was the time of major activity’ … this shown in the photograph in source b because it shows that is quite light which indicates it is daytime and a solider is sleeping during this time because in the night most of the attacks happen . Source

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    Portuguese Colonization

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    Capitalism became prominent once the economy began to expand. From the Spanish perspective‚ America’s biggest attraction was the metal that was adored from a Spanish point of view (400). One thing that caused conflict was the fur trade and the tension it created with Native groups. Like any new trend‚ religion is pushed onto new and naive people. The French and English missionaries did not have the best luck when trying to convert people to Christianity

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    Jamestown Settlement

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    Jamestown Settlement The first permanent English colony in North America was established at Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1607. In order to earn quick profits for Virginia Company investors‚ the settlers wasted no time and immediately began hunting for gold and searching for the Northwest Passage to Asia. According to page forty-two in the American Journey textbook‚ “all they would find was suffering and disappointment‚” which would foreshadow the years ahead. The colony would soon prove to be an

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    European Colonization It was said in Romans 8:31 “If God is with us‚ who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” To any follower of Christ living in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe‚ the answer to this question was no one. Europe believed that God gave them superiority and aid in their conquests and colonization of both Native American and African land. The three key factors that secured Europe’s domination of the New World were their technological superiority

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    All throughout the world and throughout history‚ goods and ideas have been spread due to cultural diffusion‚ trade‚ and travel. During their Golden Ages‚ Greece and Rome were very prosperous in the areas of writing‚ art‚ architecture‚ and their law systems. Due to the preservation of their cultures by the Byzantine Empire‚ the law systems started by the Greeks and the Romans have impacted the world greatly. During the Atlantic Slave Trade‚ Europeans would capture and enslave Africans‚ forcing them

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    Guatemala was unsuccessful in progressing socially for the indigenous Mayan people after the Guatemalan civil war to a great extent‚ because of the lack of leadership and social attitude towards the indigenous Mayan people. The indigenous Mayan people were seen as inferior due to them being minorities in society‚ which caused them to barely possess any right before and after the war. Being the lower class of the Guatemalan society‚ caused them to yearn for social progress in society‚ which was something

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