As another example, Jesuits were big production empires with the help of slavery, they were the largest land holders in America, and the Spanish were the largest owner of slaves. ... "7 This war contributes to the market of slavery trade, creates a culture difference in African war through violence, and influencing slavery. ... African slaves were turned into commodities, from the certain jobs they are needed for and the European/Spanish desire in quality of slave units. ... Leading to America's high demand for slavery. ... Sources in Africa gathered slaves for the market, using war,...

• Word Count: 1507
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The more slaves they captured meant the more horses and guns they possess and the more military dominance resulted in more successful wars guaranteed large supplies of slaves. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due...

• Word Count: 1449
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The early 19th century in America was a time when the country was divided on the issue of slavery. ... David Walker's sediments on white Americans in his writing Appeal were extreme. ... He challenged the notion that Christianity called for peace yet caused much war and degradation; He argued that Spanish conquest brought about death and degradation in the name of God. ... We may ask why would a relatively unknown African writer in America rise up in argument against the former president, according to Walker -to inspire, to bring out the existing intellectual talents of the Africans in Am...

• Word Count: 839
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the sudden rise of profitable slave trade, driven by the European need, enslaving enemies became less a consequence of war and more and more of a necessity and reason to start war with neighboring tribes. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... Though this was the most popular place, the other seven areas of the continent were used as well, mainly by Spain and Portugal, due to the closeness to the countries and the easy access. ... The trans-Atlantic slave trade made significant declines during the Napoleon...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This age of discovery and exploration led to the expansion of European powers in the Americas and in parts of Asia. ... 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. ... These colonies, as well as those of other countries, offered a greater sense of power and provided rest and refuge in time of war. ...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Without this diss...

• Word Count: 4994
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new Fren...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first two stanzas refer to the Kenyan conflict, while the second two address the war within the poet-as-outsider/insider, between his roles as blood insider but geographical outsider to the Mau Mau Uprising. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of an animal hide stretched over a cylinder. ... The poet appears to condemn such an attitude by comparing the Mau Mau Uprising to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Leaders of France and Great Britain wanted to avoid another war that would engulf all of Europe, so they introduced a no...

• Word Count: 4862
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Similarities can be seen with the evolution of Latin American countries into military rule through the caudillos following independence from Spain. ... Arguably though, the development of some military personnel and infrastructure for colonial benefit(also a pool of manpower for extraterritorial wars, such as the French in IndoChina) provided a potent enough springboard for the military to play a role in post-independence affairs. ...

• Word Count: 1713
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate