By 2030,the population is projected to hit eight to ten billion. ... With the planet growing at alarming rate 230 000 per day people, With the increasing population, pollution is on the rise, making safe water scarce In Asia the population increases by 50 million, the population of Africa by 17 million and Latin America and the Caribbean by only eight million. ... During the 14th century the Black Death wiped out a third of the population of Europe.... With the practice of contraception many wonder why there is still an increase in population? ... In Asia the population increases by 50 mil...

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Another impact on both the Native Americans and the Europeans was the sharing of native crops to each other. ... The horse highly effected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plagues the Native Americans. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ... These crops fed the great increase of population that was occurring in Africa at the time. ...

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Early Farmers in Central America As the glaciers sheltered at the end of the last Ice Age, (when Asia and North America were connected by a piece of land) the hills and mountains of Mesoamerica, or Middle America changed dramatically. ... This meant more food, and a growing population settled in a same place. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American po...

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The legion of domstic staff that ensured the efficiency of the 'big house' also consisted of members of the enslaved populations. ... The American establishment of slavery disturbed the values that the enslaved peoples possessed in Africa pre-slavery. For example, childbirth in Africa was a rite of passage for women whereas on American plantations, slave child-birth was a profit venture which increased labour force. ...

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The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. Meanwhile, the population of developing economies has continued to grow, especially in Africa and India. ... In 1800, the share of the world's population living in urban areas was only 3%; this number had increased to 30% in 1950. ... Most of this population shift has been occurring in the globa...

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Slave trade dehumanizes Africans because it focuses on the legal institution created by law in America, which allowed white American settlers to actually own Africans. ... The rise of industrialization in America brought the demand for large amounts labor and Americans only cared about money. ... Many African countries were already under populated before slavery, and as slavery increased the African population stagnated. ... The removal of such a huge population also hindered development within Africa. ... Americans used slavery to profit and bring economic and social prosperity to America...

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Some prisons are known as re-enslavement of the African American community. Compared to the transatlantic slave trade, there are more African Americans in prisons now. Although these African Americans are imprisoned and given money for their forced labor, it would only be a couple of cents a day. Officers often target African Americans and falsely accuse them. ... This process is similar to the transatlantic slave trade in which Africa's resources are depleting since the diamonds are sold to foreign countries, like the transatlantic slave trade in which the population was decreasing as sl...

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Additionally, means of transportation started to become faster and more efficient allowing migration to increase and lead to a demographical rise in population globally with a non-stop population increase. ... India exported cotton clothe to Africa and Africa exported slaves to America to produce sugar, tobacco, coffee, raw cotton, and wood to export it back to England. The Triangular Trade was an exchange of slaves, cash crops and manufactured goods between West Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies that were ruled by European powers. ... During the European colonization there were a lot...

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They have reached across the world and have expanded into becoming one of the biggest life-threatening infections that haunt America and all other countries in our world. ... Some startling statistics that I found on-line regarding the HIV infection is of follows: "Africa with at least 25 million infected, Asia with 6 million, South America with 1-2 million, North and Central America with 1 million, and Europe with also 1 million"(traveldoctoronline.net). ... Rates of incidence per 100,000 were calculated for adolescents, for young adults and for the total population"(Christine ...

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This influx of slaves in the colonies immensely diversified the population and the opinions of the colonists. Some Americans believed Africans should not be subjugated to slavery and others believed that slavery was the preeminent method to obtaining mass wealth. ... "By the year of independence, the number of slaves in North America increased to 500,000." ... This, soon enough, led to a considerably diverse population and disparate lifestyles between the Northern and Southern colonies. ... The South's excessive uses of slaves also increased the African population in the colonies. ...

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(Wright 1) On July 4th, 1776, our nation, the United States of America, was founded on the belief of personal freedom. ... Famous author Richard Wright has endorsed the fight for equal rights and opportunities among African Americans. ... It was these same views that caused whites to suppress the black population and permanently keep them under white control. ... Because white society would only see him as a faceless member of the black population, this same fear ultimately produced a Bigger Thomas with little ability to develop his own identity. ... Because African Americans knew they...

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It is hard for most Americans to even understand world hunger. ... The problem is not over-population, it most often is based on economics. ... In many countries, half the population over 15 is illiterate and two-thirds of these are women. ...

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The population of the poor doesn't decrease. ... Population of developing countries is growing very fast. ... At present Most of these people live in South Asia, South Africa, East Asia, Latin America and Caribbean Sea. ... Because of their population problems makes all the poor without get education. For example, "A country like Tchad, with a population of almost 3 millions, has only 140 people with a higher education. ...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... As in America the Obeah exerted a great deal of power and influence over the slave population and plantation owners in the Caribbean feared these charismatic religious leaders like their counterparts in America as they could incite slaves to question their oppression. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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By Loewen, discovering America and its wealth helped European domination. ... As Columbus "discovered" America, the white man "discovered" his color, and racism was born. ... The conflicting details, the vague rendition of biography, and the prejudice of early writers made it easy for early Americans to take Columbus and mold him to their purposes. Finally, for years, Columbus was considered to be, by historians (working primarily from historical documents created by Europeans), as well by the general (i.e. majority: white, euro-american) population, to be the great discoverer of the N...

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Holt, contends that to completely understand the history of Africans in the Americas, it is imperative to take a global approach not only to comprehend the overall black experience but also to realize its significance in shaping the history of the modern world. ... It's important to note the significance of African culture to America and the rest of the world. The scattering of African peoples primarily forced upon them through European colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade created a profound unifying force as a socioeconomic and cultural system of influence that helped formul...

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However, many other people keep cats to control the mouse or insect population in their house or on their farms. ... At first they were brought into the home to help fight the rise in the population of the mouse. ... This animal was called the miacis (4), a cat like meat eater whose fossils have been found in areas of North America, Europe, and Asia. ... Some are giant hunters that help keep the population of gazelle down on the plains of Africa, others are kept in the bran of a farm to keep the population of mice down, and still others are kept for the sole purpose of companionship. ...

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Racial inequality sits firmly in the foundation of Early America and the New World. ... Servitude became more accessible and soon stood as the main support system for multiple early English Colonies (Slavery and the Making of America). ... With the turn of the century, American slaves witnessed a distinctive separation as oppose to slaves and servants in Africa. ... There are definitive lines that have not only separated our population by color and ethnicity, but have also outlined the foundations of our country's earliest beliefs. ... Early America had grown accustomed to associating t...

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It wasn't just the European explorers that brought the unseen force that wreaked havoc among the Americas it was also the trade items. ... As explorers went out in search of trade, they encountered many areas in which the population had already been decimated. ... Indians for instance needed plants that did not grow locally to help cure the assault on their population. ... They lived in tight quarters with the animals on the journey and most of the population was already exposed to everything carried by the animals. ... As the Indians were being attacked by the various plagues and fig...

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In 1655 after the English took Jamaica from the Spaniards Indians and Chinese were brought in to help the African population work the plantations. ... At the same time, in keeping with our history, Jamaican menus are very likely to include boeuf fondue, fettucine or fried wonton something we acquired from the Italians and the Chinese my mother not only cooks Jamaican dishes, but she sometimes mixes them with the American dishes which make it all the more appealing. ... We Jamaicans like many Americans have many different religious backgrounds we're Anglican (Episcopalian), Baptist, J...

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An example is coffee being a high demand, especially in America. ... American ships carried one-fifth of Brazil's record slave imports across the Atlantic.... It helped empires produce food and increase population, which in time helped empire production. ... Famine and disease happened all around the world, many populations were sick, and death was all over. ... Leading to America's high demand for slavery. ...

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The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... A ruling class of "Americo-Liberians" dominated the government, despite comprising less than three percent of the population. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ... The Population Registration act classified the people asBantu (black Africans), coloured (people of mixed race), white (the descendants of the Boers), and Asian ...

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The majority of them went to the Americas, although many were taken to the Middle East and North Africa. ... Walter Rodney goes on to explain that "From one end of the continent to the other, it is easy to find examples showing that African people were conscious that population was in their circumstances the most important factor of production [...] ... Among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau, the family's strength is represented be the number of hands there are to cultivate the land. [ ] Certainly, many African rulers acquiesced in the European slave trade for what they considered to be reaso...

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Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights of more than half of the country's population. ... In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially grouped into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). ... The Department of Home Affairs was responsible for the cataloging of the population during this period. ... Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forc...

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