After the American Revolution, the new nation of the United States stood as one of the biggest countries, extending twelve hundred miles from north to south, from Maine to Georgia. ... Although the decades following the American Revolution is often times associated as an era of change, both subtle and abrupt, many things remained the same in the American daily life. ... The amount of the members in the average American household never really changes until later in the nineteenth century, however we begin to see changes as early as the 1800s when couples begin to limit the size of their famil...

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The discovery and colonisation of the Americas, the exploitation of slaves to be used as a work force to generate commercial goods, the consumerist and industrial revolutions that followed and the formation of the foundations of the modern financial system. ... Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new French Republic and other Monarchical European countries. ... To begin with British traders merely supplied slaves to the Spanish and Port...

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The author begins by giving a brief history of the origins of European exploration, mapping the monopoly of the Iberian peninsular to the de-monopolization by emerging nations. ... The religious policy investigates the impacts of the social revolution, the Reformation and the Treaty of Cateau Cambresis, which molded the religious affiliations of both crown and its colonists. ... The exploitation colony originated through mistakes learnt by the Europeans in America. ... An example is the French Revolution. ...

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Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... " 1 On the topic of competition, colonial powers start to become strategic and especially the British begin to feel threatened by other rival colonial states, a form of protectionism starts to emerge whereby states want to shield their own domestic commodities and businesses from external influences. ... Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Thirdly, the industrial revolution which had lef...

• Word Count: 2491
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Frank begins ReOrient by addressing the "Eurocentric" economic views that are popular in modern historical texts. ... Most of the world's productive capacities were in Asia and India up until the industrial revolution, according to Frank. ... Frank revolves his entire book around the idea that Europeans were only able to usurp power and influence by controlling the money supply from South America, the labor supply from Africa and the productive capacity of Asia. ... Vast and wealthy empires were in existence in both South America and Africa during this same time period and in Frank...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-En...

• Word Count: 6124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate