The Commercial Revolution comprising of two hundred years of extensive changes in commerce and trade was fueled by mercantilism, which produced a global economy. ... Their pursuit of gold and silver led them to colonize Central and South America as well as the west and east coasts of North America using slaves from Africa as laborers. ... The arrival of Europeans on the American soil brought diseases never before encountered by the native people. ... Much was accomplished and brought about by colonization and the Commercial Revolution. ... Today America is the wealthiest and most powerful nati...

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The Industrial Revolution was a period of social, economic, and technologic growth and expansion that originated in England in the late 1700s. ... The spread of the Industrial Revolution was fast and brought wealth to England and Europe with the "World Trade System" and later to the rest of the world. ... India exported cotton clothe to Africa and Africa exported slaves to America to produce sugar, tobacco, coffee, raw cotton, and wood to export it back to England. The Triangular Trade was an exchange of slaves, cash crops and manufactured goods between West Africa, the Caribbean...

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Why America Allows slavery in the 21st century? ... After the declaration of independence when Thomas Jefferson stated that "All men are created equal", the slaves thought that they would gain also some freedom as a result of the American Revolution. ... Other US corporations don't even need to bring them to America. They go to poor countries in Central and South America looking for people who will set for lower wages than Americans. ... It is not only Americas fault. ...

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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. ... 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 upheava...

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Black Social Movement "Hip- Hop as a Revolution" Music has played a significant role upon culture for Black Americans. ... At this time, many Americans had not even heard of reggae music so, this style did not catch on. ... Helping the hip- hop revolution move forward, he revealed the four elements of hip- hop. 1. ... -KRS ONE Hip- hop is the revolution that KRS is speaking of. ... From the style to the breaking, to the emceeing, to the graffiti and finally, DJing, the hip- hop revolution is here and, rather than dismiss it as propaganda and nonsensical ramblings, America needs to cl...

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When I came back to America, I was in a state of shock for a while. ... Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. ... These parts of South America gave them access to a lot of gold and silver. ... In the early 19th Century, before the industrial revolution, European countries were occupying areas that had precious metals, slaves, and tropical products. ... Today, there are small civilizations of these tribes in South America and North America, but th...

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Imperialism occurred throughout Africa, china, Latin America, and India. Cultural beliefs were a large impact of the imperialism of India and Latin America. ... The industrial revolution, which preceded this new imperialism, allowed stronger economics to arise. ... They were the response from the United States, the Spanish American War, and the Panama Canal. ... The Spanish American War was a 5-month war dealing with Cuba. ...

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Liberation theology was a movement that grew in South America. The aim of the movement was for the church to act to bring about social change for the poverty and the bad treatment of ordinary people. In the 1950's, 1960's and before the government were like a dictatorship and they seen no problem wi...

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A third and more breathtaking revolution occurred in the economic side was steam-powered equipment's that were perfected and applied to one producing process after another. Equally the fresh tools created a new form of production firm in economic revolution known as the factory. These revolutions had been an extraordinary surge in the growth of population, mainly in enhancements in the food supply. ...

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Imperialism There are many different causes and effects of European Imperialism on the continent of Africa. These causes and effects had a big part in the change of the continent of Africa. One general cause of Imperialism in the mid 1800s- m...

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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. ... A revolution in o...

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Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa began its journey of decolonization in 1956 when the Sudan won independence after the Egyptian revolution in 1952 (Findley/Rothney 387). ... There were two parts of this convention, a moderate wing headed by a variety of African business and professional men, and a militant wing, led by an American educated young man, Kwame Nkrumah. This new American leader helped to organize a revolt again the British rule which eventually led to Ghana gaining its independence. ...

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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 a gradual decline in Imperialistic views and ideals following the American and French revolutions, a sudden increase for colonial power ensued in Western Europe. ... 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 beg...

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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. ... Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Thirdly, the industrial revolution which had left a surplus population allowed for colonial states to send out people to the settlements in Africa. ...

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Since the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, the global population has soared to currently approximately 7.4 billion people. The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. ...

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Some of the issues that she identified among facing women in both America and Mali include poor communication among spouse. This resulted into incompatibility and unhappiness among the married partners, which she claimed was the major causes of most divorce in America even though the rate of divorce in Mali were low since women did not have rights to child custody among others. ... Surprisingly, the same thing happened to the author, which she claims it is a common issue in America even though people rarely discuss about it in public. ... This is because after realizing the challenges that wo...

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Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights...

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Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... The slave trades from the Bight of Biafra steadily deteriorated in the nineteenth century, mainly due to English patrols and a decrease in demand for slaves from the Americas, but also because of local shortages of slaves. ... Making history is not always about revolutions and great victories, but equally about blind determination that often leads to tragic downfalls....

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They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. ... Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. ... During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to the slaves" cultura...

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These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ... Further, this study compared beliefs among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Astonishingly, the numbers show that 54 percent of African Americans believed that the disease is a form of genocide aimed particularly at African Americans. ... The second part of this review will discuss conspiracy theories among the African American culture. ... According to the freedom domain website, in the 18th century, Masons, who later converted to Illuminati, sole purpose was to ...

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Development in the West and North America has been steady and successful. Example could be taken from industrial revolution in the UK in relation to development has progressed further the transformation of manufacturing into science- based activity despite new economic problems created by new technologies. ... There have not been the improvements in living standards which have become apparent in many Asian and Latin American countries. ...

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The effects of both of these comings could be felt throughout the continents The differences between the Native Americans and the European colonists were drastic and very obvious from the beginning. ... The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later the Six Nations, consisted of a confederacy of Native American Nations. ... Being such a close and organized group helped the Iroquois to become a powerful Native American nation. ... The Europeans brought superior weapons with them to North America, which they were willing to trade for objects the Indians had that they found desirable....

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After the disintegration of the ancien regime in Western Europe and the advent of democracy citizens of nations such as Belgium had more influence in state affairs. The power of government in Belgium was considered more important than the power of the monarchy. It was because of this tha...

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Introduction There is a need to meet the growing energy demand. Having a sustainable source of electricity is a universal dream that all countries want to achieve. The interest in green energy is growing because fossil fuels are limited. Fossil fuels are currently he main source of electricity. They...

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Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. Conquests, colonization, the slave trade, Arabic and European cultural elements, Islam and Christianity and recently the spread of consumerist society have all transformed...

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