The Spanish government started giving certain people tracts of land as gifts and obligations, they were also given the right to force the Indians that lived on that land to work a certain amount of time a year and the right to tax the Indians on the land. ... The land owner would usually accept a trade. ... They were trying to gain as much land as possible, and I think that in general it wasn't a bloody scene. ... There were some bad things that the Spanish brought with them, like diseases. ... It is too bad that the Spanish couldn't have treated the Indians in a truly Chris...

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It also made a disadvange to the both the mother land and the colony. ... The more land that England had, the more of a global empire. ... England got more land so they became a bigger world power. Some negative effects were that England had more land to protect. ... Overall in my opion imperialism cause more bad than good. ...

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The colony on the other hand is not as pleased with the outcome of imperialism on their native land. ... The main reason is because of the bad trade, meaning that land in Africa cost more money than it brought back in. ... It was a wealthy land that was taken over by Europe because they wanted Africa's wealth. When the colonizers came to Africa they took over the land by force. ... "When the whites came to our country, we had the land and they had the Bible; now we have the Bible and they have the land". ...

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He not only proved that the world was round, but found more land in his four explorations. ... The Spanish got many things from the New World; they got wealth, land, and labor. ... Columbus did a lot for many people, giving them land and a new start. ... Columbus was not a bad person, but he gets blamed for all of this because he found the New World. ...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

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Once explorers found new land, they could begin to colonize and set up new territories. If there were people already established on the land, they could bring back new ideas, wealth, and goods to their home country. ... They wanted spices to make their food taste better, and because they did not have any refrigeration to keep their food from going bad. ...

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Since the Native Americans had a bad reputation and were seen as devil worshipers to the Spanish they needed to be converted to Christianity. ... The conquistadors and Spanish settlers were given grants of land and the Indians that lived in each part of them were considered their land. These parts of land had an owner that would convert and Christianize these Indians if the Indians worked for them. ... When the English got to the Americans they didn't want to take over the land like the Spanish but they wanted to be apart of them. ... The Spanish knew they wanted to take over land and the...

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Instead of keeping possession of land for itself, the company introduced the head right system. ... As Virginia began to thrive, they became more populated and needy of more land. ... Now settlers spreading inland into Virginia would occupy Indians' land. This uprising showed the importance of land to the colony/colonists. ... The main reason for this outbreak was that if a person witnessed another person committing a Puritan sin (bad church attendance, and minimal worshipping), they would be reported as being a witch. ...

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It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trauma and disadvantages that have plague the Indigenous people of Australia for far too long. ... This simple act of claiming land that the British contested was 'unoccupied' has led to the devastating oppression of Indigenous Australians. ... In British law there is a legal distinction made between the acquisition of territory and land (Behrendt, 2009, p.6). This dis...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They do not own the land, they belong to it. ... In the opening scene, there is an overhead shot that captures the swamp in Central Arnhem Land. ... This description of nature ends up foreshadowing the bad events that are going to occur in the short story through the use of pathetic fallacy. ... " Essentially, although Weller illustrates that his Indigenous characters have a connection to nature, the strength of this has clearly deteriorated from that of the world that de Heer presents; the sacred relationship between the people and the land seems to have been tainted. ...

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These posts were exclusively commercial with instructions from Leopold to claim as much land as possible for the Congo. ... In eighteen seventy- nine Stanley competed aggressively with the French explorer Savorgnan de Brazza for land gains in the Congo. ...

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Moving on, she is associated with foreignness after being branded by Brocklehurst as 'this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land' who is 'worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut'. ... This 'presence of oppression' is key in showing that the role of colonialism is almost for use as cannon fodder in mocking the British aristocracy, as though it is a given that the 'dark races' are bad and to compare one with them is insulting at the very least. ...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, s...

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