Throughout this period of time, many parts of Africa and Asia fell under European rule. ... The East India Company came to an end and India was immediately put under British rule. ... African and Indian culture and economy were damaged when Britain was trying to imperialize these colonies. ... The British didn't intend to take over the Cape at first, they "aimed to protect the trade route to the East, however, the British soon realised the potential to develop the Cape for their own needs. " ( sahistory.org.za, South African history) They were essentially selfish and wanted the land for ...

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The Enslavement of Africans But why were the slaves always African? ... But the central question of which peoples from Africa went to a given region of the Americas, and which group of Europeans or their descendants organized such a movement cannot be answered without an understanding of the wind and ocean currents of the North and South Atlantic. There are two systems of wind and ocean currents in the North and South Atlantic that follow the pattern of giant wheels - one lies north of the equator turns clockwise, while its counterpart to the south turns counterclockwise. ... Winds and cu...

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The south German states agreed to join the German Empire and William I was declared the emperor of Germany. ... When Britain took land from Dutch settlers in South Africa, they had to leave and settle more upward of Africa. ... Rhodes established rich gold mines and they conquered their rivals in the South African War. By 1910 South Africa was untied with the old Cape Colony and Natal in a new Union of South Africa. ... Germany established protectorates over African kingdoms and tribes in Togo, South Africa, and later East Africa. ...

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He is basically showing us that Africa, Australia, and New Guinea had a head start over Europe and the Americas, yet it is Europe and the Americas that have the dominant cultures today. ... Diamond uses the Spanish invasion and conquest of the Incas in South America to illustrate how European diseases aided the Spanish in their victory against and obviously powerful society. ... He basically argued that the diffusion of the knowledge of food production occurred much more rapidly from east to west, than from north to south, because the climate, environment, and geography is more similar...

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It lies on the European continental shelf and to the Northwest of continental Europe and East of Ireland. It is separated from the continent by the North sea and by the England channel, which narrows to 34km ( 21mi) at the straits of Dover.It stretches over about ten degrees of latitude on its longer, north-south axis, and occupies an area of 209,331km2 (80,823 sq. mi) excluding all the smaller surrounding islands of archipelago. ... The island is physically connected with continental Europe via the channel tunnel, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world which was completed in 1993.geogr...

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Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... One factor in this might be that the energy security issue as a whole is not as attractive to writers as other topical subjects as the former energy commissioner of EU Andris Piebalgs says: "They tend to forget or fail to appreciate the importance of energy and mutual future security issues even though they are at the forefront of the new European security agenda. " One other reason for thi...

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They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and developing world that dominated the international agenda in the 1970s but largely disappeared throughout the 1980s and 1990s. ...

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