The cultural and developmental aspects of American history in the 17th and 18th centuries are certainly among the most important and influential factors in the shaping of this country's long and storied history. ... Even families, which seem to be a non-changing in history, were also distinct in size and order. ... Another crop that did exceptionally well in the tropical climate of the Caribbean was the sugar cane brought over by Columbus. ... The house in the colonial times shaped the home. ... Hunting was a very popular pastime in colonial America. ...

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Cuba has a lot of natural resources but its main use is sugar. Cuba has the largest production of sugar in the world in which uses its rivers to export sugar and to import goods sent from other countries. The sugar company of Cuba represents 5.7% of the export sales in the world. ... People today may see Fidel Castro as this horrible communist president of Cuba, however if you look back in history he fought for his country. ... And the same thing goes for Americans traveling to Cuba. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the geographical concepts of Brazil such as the culture, history and its importance, language, trade, etc and how they compare to those of the United States. ... Brazil borders on ten other Latin American countries. ... Portuguese settlers developed vast sugarcane estates in the Bahia region, and for one hundred and fifty years these estates were in the world's main source of sugar. ... It borders all Latin American countries except Chile and Ecuador. ... With such a diverse heritage, Bryce Jenkins states that Brazil is considered by many history...

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The Planting of English America 1. ... Since knowledge was passed down from the elders, Indian history was wiped out as many Indians perished. ... Sugar drove the West Indian economy. ... Hundreds of thousands of African slaves were imported to work the sugar plantations. 4. ... The sugar industry pushed all other agriculture out of the West Indies. ...

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Bob Marley History is full of men who have done amazing things; Robert Nesta Marley has permanently been settled in the books of history for his achievements in life. ... (In the days of the 'plantocracy business', the area had been a sugar plantation, owned by the Lindos, one of the twenty-one families that are said to rule Jamaica.) ... Few were so ungrateful as to complain that Jamaica's colonial masters had seen fit to build Trench Town without any form of sewage system. ... He did not move in those packs of adolescents who tried to imitate...

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It is no accident that the Yoruba cultural influence spread across the Atlantic to the Americas. European slave hunters violently captured and marched untold millions of Africans to their demise on over crowded slave ships bound for the Americas. Slave wars launched by the kingdom of Dahomey against some of the Yoruba kingdoms, and slave wars between the Yoruba's themselves made war casualty Africans available for transportation to the Americas. ... In recent years, availability of attainable air travel has enabled African Americans to go back to the essence from which this great culture ...

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Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. ... It seems that his influences in the manner were quite strange for the time, as stated, When he finished at Eton, Eric signed on with the Burmese police, partly because his father had influence at the Colonial Office, partly because he was seduced by Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay (which Orwell bizarrely considered to be the finest poem in the English language), with its promise of "a Burma girl a-settin' " by the old Moulmein pagoda. ...

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