A.P. U.S. History Notes Chapter 1: “New World Beginnings” Summary: 225 million years ago‚ Earth was one supercontinent (Pangaea) and ocean. About 10 million years ago‚ the North America that we know today was formed (geographical shape). The first discoverers of North America were nomadic Asians who wandered over here by way of an exposed land bridge from Russia to Alaska during the Ice Age. Though they were hunters at first‚ by 5000 BC‚ they had become hunter-gatherers with a diet of
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The instability created by the First World War (1914-1918) proved to be not the end of a catastrophic international conflict; in fact‚ it marked the beginning of another also commonly known as the Second World War (1939-1945). World War II took the lives of about 17 million soldiers and an even greater number of civilians‚ who died due to bombings‚ starvation‚ and deliberate campaigns of mass murder. Additionally‚ this global war also ushered in the atomic age and was quickly followed by the collapse
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had no opportunity to express what they had in their mind. The white European descends did not believe or want to believe of the intelligent and the ability of African American. They believed that the “Old Negro” cannot develop hypothesis on their own. For centuries‚ the old Negro had suffered from racial‚ social‚ and economic depression. This paper will provide the definition of old Negro and how does Alain Locke define the new Negro‚ what is George Schuyler’s understanding of what African American
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previously unconnected worlds. A) Define the Columbian Exchange B) Identify TWO things transported from the New World to the Old World‚ and discuss their impact. C) Identify TWO things transported from the Old World to the New World‚ and discuss their impact. Outline: A Columbian Exchange B - precious metals - tomatoes C - horses -smallpox Movement of people‚ specie‚ plants‚ animals and disease from Europe to the Americas (and vice versa) - gold‚ silver; used for currency
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Aldrous Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World‚ the drug soma influences the World State with falsely constructed hallucinations of pleasure. The soma’s originally unchallenged authority develops a conflict with John the Savage as the two symbols in Huxley’s novel struggle for power within the sinful civilization of the World State. The drug‚ soma‚ is representative of a Christ figure in Huxley’s novel that captures supreme dominance in society. Soma holds dominance over the World State by creating the ideal
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World War 1 was a very different war from all of the other wars previous to it. The number of countries involved in this war was a great deal more than in the preceding wars. There was also more modern technology which made this war different because of the weapons and machinery used. There are a number of different reasons why this war happened‚ but it can be narrowed down to five main reasons that built up tension and therefore started the biggest war in history up until that point in time. The
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industrialisation of Asia became a new world for the europeans but lead way for dard life for the asians. China had been of the europeans radar for hundreds of years but never became of interest to them till the early 1800’s‚ Europeans desperately wanted to make trade in china creating the start of two extremes of success and unjust. Imperialism in Asia had many effects to both Asia and Europe. Opium‚ extraterritoriality and western influence. China became addicted‚when Europeans could not keep up with the
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Every person in the world has known the story about the World War I and the consequences that the World War I brought to the world. The World War I started in Europe‚ and even though President Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep America to be impartial in thought as well as action‚ but after the sinking of the Lusitania‚ Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to the Congress about joining the World War I. And the reason why was the United States of America involved in the World War I whether for the advantages of
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what caused it‚ what effects it had on Wall Street and unemployment‚ and how the New Deal reformed it. This historical and economical downfall was a result of “the Roaring Twenties” era. The United States’ total wealth more than doubled throughout the years of 1920 and 1929 causing the economy to expand rapidly‚ hence the era’s name. “The stock market‚ centered at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City…where everyone from millionaire tycoons to cooks and janitors poured their
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“Charity begins at home” is an expression we have all heard and I’m sure used and today I learnt just how true that is! Historically‚ the phrase is not linked to the giving of money at all but is in actual fact a word of Latin origin. “Caritas” means dearness and the giving of love based on respect‚ as well as expensiveness (much in the way that we use dear for both senses in the English language). Thus‚ Charity was the word used in the bible to mean the giving of love‚ which of course‚ should
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