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. ... Europeans brought the crops of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes, which they had received, from the Native Americans, to Africa. ...

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The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. ... Native African music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. ... Incidentally, there was an outpouring of African-American art after emancipation. ... Some scientific discoveries, however, are duly attributed to famous African-Americans. ... It may be that Africans had scientific methods native to Africa that they brought to the New World, but these were overlooked by supremacist slave-owners and gradually disappeared. ...

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Their pursuit of gold and silver led them to colonize Central and South America as well as the west and east coasts of North America using slaves from Africa as laborers. ... The arrival of Europeans on the American soil brought diseases never before encountered by the native people. ... The manner chosen to accomplish this was to either massacre the native peoples who were left after illness or expel them from their lands. Additionally, many native peoples were enslaved and sold or forced to work their former lands. ... Today America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth and is ...

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Tom Quick was a strong, agile, cunny white man who lived among Native Americans. ... He learned the native ways with his Dutch family. ... Colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina claimed some rights and privileges as English men and woman, while they denied those rights and privileges to Native Americans and African slaves. ...

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The Middle Passage referred to the second leg of the triangular trade, in which Africans were sent to the Americas to work as slaves. This is all because the Native Americans began to die out due to European disease. ... If a slave were to die en route to the Americas, he would toss them over the side of the ship. ...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... Even though the colonizers worked in some ways along with the Native Americans, they also intimidated them with their weapons and all because of their ignorance. ... Other US corporations don't even need to bring them to America. They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only Americas fault. ...

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We are all Americans. Just plain Americans. ... Let's not forget about the "Native Americans". ... "Kansas City Native American Leaders defeated the Washington Native Americans 23 - 21 on a Last Second Field Goal." ... I realize, as do most Americans, that when Christopher Columbus discovered America he thought he had found India. ...

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To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives. ... He ordered the natives to proclaim him governor of the lands. ... Many of the natives never encountered sickness before, and didn't have the immunities. ... Columbus tried to use the natives as slaves but they were too frail. ...

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They are usually crosses between heavy horses or native ponies and thoroughbreds. ... North America has Quarter, Saddle, Morgan, Pinto, and Shetland horses. South America has Criollo, Haiti, Crioulo, Campolino, and Morochuco horses. ...

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In Australia, the British sent its criminals and convicted to this island, where they were to survive with natives. ... Soon the British began to push the natives into reservations. Violence broke out sometimes, but the British would always win and push the natives even more inland. ... Because the French governed Southern Asia, the United States of America was put into the Korean and Vietnam War. ... The Americans were sent in to control the Communist outbreak, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. ...

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The biggest surprise to African-Americans or even Americans just in general, is that there are also white people in Africa. ... Indians also known as Native-Americans were here before the whites; but the only reason they are called Indians is because Christopher Columbus thought he had found India. ... Just as all African-Americans are stereotype by the American society, when African Immigrants come here and interact with African-Americans, they too began to stereotype them. ... The American stereotype that I've heard is that Americans are selfish and greedy people. ... As for being an Af...

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It is here that the African involvement comes into play, as obviously the natives to the area were not afraid of disease that they were immune to. It is interesting to note, however, that African natives did not simply grab and sell anyone to the Europeans that they could get their hands on. ... The Europeans had a need that only African betrayal of its natives could satisfy. ... There were eight primary areas used by Europeans slave traders and Africans to obtain and import slave natives to the Western Hemisphere. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million en...

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As an American, when it comes to Africa, one is on the outside looking in, waiting to be informed. ... He eventually gains the help of a haughty, unkempt rogue hunter from America. ... The problem exists with the long portrayed dynamic in all its forms between the European and the native African. ... Rarely is the same effort made to establish not only an understanding, but also a loyalty to the native people that populate the story. ... The last we see of the natives is a trainload moving survivors on to another labor destination. ...

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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. ... By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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To designate responsibility for the growth of slavery in the American colonies at first appears to be a difficult task. ... One can start by arguing that if the leaders of Africa failed to imprison and then sell innocent victims that slavery itself wouldn't have evolved in the Americas. ... In fact, during early settlement Native Americans were used as slaves as well. So, one then must assess the British Royal African Company's involvement in North American slavery. ... To me it's quite simple, the party that is responsible for the growth of slavery in the American colonies is t...

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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. In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... In Native Son, Bigger Thomas seems to be composed of a mass of disruptive emotions rath...

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These words, spoken by Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, describe the disgust Kurtz has at American and Western involvement in Indochina. ... Looking back at Africa adventure, Marlow cannot comprehend how the natives had become their enemies. ... Marlow's physical description of the natives he encounters and the surrounding land clearly represent disgust and disapproval for the African imperialistic movement. ... The European's ivory and other possessions and beliefs are the most important, while the well-being of others, especially the natives, are not worthy...

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A system was generated in which goods and people, including slaves were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Colonies in North America called the Triangular Trade. ... Colonist used Indians and indentured servants to do hard labor for them, The Native Americans were known to escape easily and the prices kept rising for Indentured servants due to these crisis they turned to Africans for cheap labor. ... As slaves were transported to America they were unsuspected of what was to happen to them. ... The Triangular Trade was an attempt to fix economical problem...

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The native dance is a folk dance. ... It was modified to a slower, less exotic dance known as the rumba before Americans caught on to the fad. ... Emil Coleman was one of the earliest bandleaders to organize Latin American orchestras. ... Though this was before the craze of rumba he did exceptionally well in broadening Americans" knowledge of the music and dance. ... "Rumba is the spirit and soul of Latin American music and dance," said by Arthur Greenberg; a historian on Latin dances. ...

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African-Americans, though legal slavery has been abolished for over 100 years, still have not completely achieved the respect and status of the dominant group in the United States. African-Americans had to endure such harsh treatment, but how can any criteria be established by which to grant reparations. ... Though I personally have never been to Africa, I guess because of my comfort in the environment I was raised in, I"d rather be right here in America. In this paper, I will discuss my views on the reparations for African Americans. Africans were seized from their native land, and sold...

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After the 1820's many Western European countries had lost many of its colonies, such as France in America and Spain in South America. Of course, Britain had also lost its crucial colonies during the Revolutionary War North America. ... After losing its thirteen colonies in North America, Britain had begun to lose its economic edge. ... An English economist, Hobson argued that special interest groups, not the people back home or the natives, would benefit from colonization. ... This new type of "slavery" created lower wages, unequal rights, and discrimination for the natives of these col...

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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. ... Also, as the prototypical Western white male, Columbus carried across the Atlantic racist prejudices against the native people. 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. ... Columbus's discovery shaped the Modern Age because it allowed European countries domination of the worl...

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This is when the two tribes compete against each other for a reward, such as food items, work tools, special get a ways, new car's, massages, visit's with family members, and even people who are native to the area, to help them cook and teach them how to live of the land better. ... The rumor is that the next Survivor location will be in the Amazon Basin in South America, near the Amazon River. ...

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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, forcing the black peasantry off its own farms and reapportioning less than 15 percent of the country's land to over 80 percent of its native population, the band Caluza's "Silusapho Lwase Afrika (We Are The Children of Africa)" was adopted as an early anthem of the ANC due to its passionate chorus. ...

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In this paper I will explain how historians can use oral traditions like Sundiata, African storytelling, and Native American oral traditions, in writing of history and historical reconstruction. ... Whether it is in an African society of Native American society, oral traditions and storytelling is a great way to get the facts in detail of different cultures and civilizations. ...

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