Jamaica belongs to a group of islands created by the summits of a submerged mountain range connecting Central America to present day Venezuela. ... The Spanish Occupation (1494-1655) During his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus learned from the natives of Cuba of an island lying to the south rich with gold. ... In response, the Spanish introduced enslaved blacks brought from Spain, and these were later supplemented by slaves brought directly from Africa. ... Despite Spanish efforts to maintain Jamaica and other colonies, by the mid 1600s the Spanish empire was in v...

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The Caste War, which began in the dry limestone flats of the Yucatan Peninsula in 1847, was one of the most successful indigenous uprisings in the history of the Americas and led to the existence of an independent Maya state that remained autonomous for over 50 years. Yet, the Caste War was also a war of factions, Maya against Mexican, Maya against British, Mexican against British, and Maya against Maya. Inhabited by the Maya for well over three thousand years, the Yucatan had become a political and economic focus for the Spanish colonial powers centered in Merida. ... By 1821, Mexico had gain...

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It might have seemed that with their territorial advantage and early start, the Spanish colonies were best posed to take control of the new world. ... The United States quickly raised in opposition to mercantilist and strong armed trade tactics of European powers – most dramatically during the War of 1812. ... This new form of manifest destiny led the US to reengage with imperial Europe in the Spanish-American War. Many American's came to view Cuba's situation as colonial oppression, Which Henry Cabot Lodge "compared tooppression which led us to rebel against England.9&quo...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The Spanish American war opened the door for the US to rise to power globally and thus become a force to be reckoned with herself. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. With a sinister feeling that the US should remain neutral throughout the War, Americans were very much against President Wilson's announcement that the US was to mobilize for conflict...

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These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The seemingly inevitable conflict between the British and the French resultant of the competition for the dominance of North America was ended upon the agreement of peace following the culmination of the Seven Years" War with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ... The various revenue raising Acts from the mid ...

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Subsequently following the French and Indian War, which happened to be where the British fought for the American colonies, Britain was in great need to pay its debts. Holding the war against the colonies, Britain decided to tax the colonies to pay for their large debt. ... In 1650, a series of laws called the Navigation Acts were issued for the American colonies; although they did not come into full effect until after the French and Indian War. These laws prohibited the trade of certain items, which made it difficult for merchants who relied on French, Spanish, and other foreign countries for ...

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The American Revolution: A Loyalist's Perspective Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. ... Although, there are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained "loyal" to the British during the American Revolution, it is indisputable that support for the war was far from universal. ... When the war began between America and England, colonists were forced to choose sides. ... America's victory in the Re...

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Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. ... Although, there are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained "loyal" to the British during the American Revolution, it is indisputable that support for the war was far from universal. ... When the war began between America and England, colonists were forced to choose sides. ... America's victory in the Revolutionary War was merely the logical culmination of the pr...

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Afterwards, the American Revolution came. The British Parliament introduced new taxes in order to be able to maintain and preserve its North American colonies. ... Also, in the years following the American Revolution, the British government tried to consolidate control over India and Canada. ... French ports were blocked by the Royal Navy, which gained a major victory against the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... With the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918), Great Britain declared war on Germany. ...

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These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The seemingly inevitable conflict between the British and the French resultant of the competition for the dominance of North America was ended upon the agreement of peace following the culmination of the Seven Years" War with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ... The various revenue raising Acts from the mid ...

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At the end of the Napoleonic wars, "normality" was constituted in Europe for half a century. ... Although the basic principle of British foreign policy was non-intervention, Castlereagh was in agreement with Metternich on the issue of joint intervention to suppress the Spanish revolution of 1820. ... Despite the British intervention in Spain, Castlereagh, who was already very unpopular among the British public, could not be seen as giving too many concessions to the European powers. ... Another albeit less significant aim of Castlereagh's was to restore equilibrium between Europe and ...

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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. ...

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How "Revolutionary" was the American Revolution? ... Despite the Declaration there was still a lot of division among the American people, bought on by lack of funds and foods, the strain of the long war and complaints about the inefficiency of the Congress. ... But the darkness over America was slowly lifting. ... The combination of the French recognition of the United States (1778) and its allegiance with the same which bought much need supplies and money to the colonists, and in a small way Spain's declaration of War against the British in 1779, and the continued persistence of the...

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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...

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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...

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All major powers had anticipated war, and the pre-war planning, such as the Schlieffen Plan, exacerbated everything. ... The youth had slowly been indoctrinated for war. Society itself was familiar with the possibility of war. ... The solution, again, was war. ... The determination to go to war did not emerge from domestic pressures, or one party would have opposed war as a way to weaken the other one politically. ...

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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. ...

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