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...

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Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ... He lost his navy, he lost to guerilla warfare in Spain, and his fatal loss occurred when he attempted to invade Russia and led his army into the unrelenting winter, which destroyed his troops and his hope at ever succeeding at...

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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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When looking at the history of art, these names go hand in hand with others like Picasso, the famous Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculpture and ceramist who created works including The Absinthe Drinker (1901) and his absinthe glass mould from the summer of 1914. ...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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