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- 5551: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... continent. They then set out to other continents to broaden their horizons and reach total knowledge and enlightenment. The 16th century was the setting for the early days of the arriving Europeans to the North American continent. Countries such as England, Portugal, France and Spain entered the continent and set up colonies which were widely spread out over the land. The natives of the area had formerly agreed upon their occupation ...
- 5552: Imperialism In Nigeria And
- ... stock was to block trade with other nations, and extract resources from far off colonies. This was the major justification for early colonization. In the quest for profit, England led the way in the industrial revolution of the 18th century. As the leading economic power of the day, England sought to expand their economic dominion by seizing new lands. Newly rich industrialists were eager to invest their wealth in markets at ...
- 5553: The Holocaust
- ... Auschwitz and many other camps. Despite the harsh treatment of the Jews, little Germans opposed this. When the news reached the allies, they all refused and put down any rescue plans to aid the Jews. American Jews were warned against seeking any action for the benefit of the European Jews although Zionists managed to save small groups of young Jews and brought them to Palestine. The Vatican condemed racism in general ...
- 5554: Europe's The Great War for Empire
- ... Austria and France with the goal to totally destroy Prussia. There was also a growing conflict facing France and Great Britain that would continue to increase in momentum. This war was the prelude to what American would call "The French and Indian War" in which these two European countries would fight for land in the Americas. The events of the War of Austrian Succession, fortuitously for France, worked out exactly as ...
- 5555: In The Beginning
- ... Indians, and two-hundred African Americans and took them to Florida, they figured that this was an attempt to allow the Spanish and the two groups he had captured to become allies. As the first American colony was settled there were few white women in the population. The ones who were there were usually rich. This was of no fault of their own, they just had rich fathers or they married ...
- 5556: Indian Imperialism
- ... T. and Thane. In her trade with other countries, India usually maintained a favourable balance, which were used for paying off various kinds of dues charged on India by Britain. With Britian leading the Industrial Revolution, India was bound to be second to industrialize. Up to 1914, Industrial development was mainly restricted in the production of export of those goods with the natural advantage (jute, tea etc.) and in those areas ...
- 5557: The Shocks of European Colonization
- ... also spread deadly diseases to the Indians who had a deficient immune system in contrast to those of Europeans. Not only did these outrages happen to these two cultures, but this happened to the North American Indians. Englishman pushed Indians out of their homes and set up their own society. The Africans brought over from Africa did not do so great either. Portuguese pioneered the market for African slave trade and ...
- 5558: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... of yielding the farmers profits the wheat pools made the farmers poor. In Alberta, economic depression was the worst with the combination of prices, debts, and interest. It got so bad that the Social Credit Revolution of 1935 was formed. Partly Canadian collapse in prices that followed Wall Street's Black Thursday was the high cost of mechanization, exorbitant interest rates and boom-bust grain prices. 16 Employers were particular about ...
- 5559: The Gift: Review
- ... seemed a little intense, but at the same time intriguing to read, so I decided to read it, hoping that it would be worth it, and it was. The novel The Gift describes a typical American family who has lost a family member, (the daughter), because of meningitis. This family is soon drawn apart because of their loss and soon the members become distant from one and other. The family comes ...
- 5560: The Toltecs, Aztecs, and Mayans
- ... and their influences reached south to the Yucatan and Guatemala. They were a composite tribe of Nahua, Otomi, and Nonoalca. The Tolt ecs made huge stone columns decorated like totem poles. AZTECS> Aztecs were an American Indian people who rule an empire in Mexico during the 1400's and early 1500's. They practiced a religion that affected every part of their lives. To worship the Aztecs built towering temples, created ...
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