Several products that were either unknown to Europeans (like tobacco), or occupied a luxury niche in pre-expansion European tastes (like gold or sugar), now fell within the capacity of Europeans to produce more abundantly. ... As this suggests, European domination of Amerindians was complete. Indeed, from the European perspective it was much too complete. ... That this option was never seriously considered suggests a European inability to enslave other Europeans. ... The major cause was a dissonance in African and European ideas of eligibility for enslavement at the root of which lies cultu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

New cultural ideas often emerged from writers who had been living in Europe, mostly in exile. ... Fidel Castro's oust of the Batista dictatorship drew world interest on problems in Latin America and the forces in conflict there.5 Latin American writers had long been in the shadow of Anglo-European writers, partially because of the language barrier. ... Unlike the current European trend, Latin American books were not written primarily to attack the very concept of the novel. ... Early in the twentieth century, U.S. leaders urged the expansion of American influence over other countries...

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Both of these required tremendous labor input to match the demand of continental Europe. ... A unique form of Catholicism emerged that was a mixture of the three cultures mentioned above. ... Additionally, the countries were a mixture of cultures and races with strong regionalism that would tug at the unity of many of the newly formed nations. ... To provide labor for the burgeoning industry there was a large migration from Europe to Argentina. Although this gave Buenos Aires a more European feel, the country would struggle with its national identity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but cities such as Ife and Benin, among others, had been standing at their present sites for at least five hundred years before the European arrival. ... First, Yoruba tradition can be forgiven for having seen the beginning of Yoruba culture as the creation of the world, for Yoruba c...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

Archeologists and anthropologists use this term to describe bones with European, Middle Eastern and South Asian characteristics. ... One of these groups known as the Ainu, who are indigenous to Japan and the Polynesians are a people with light coloring and "European" features. (8,9) Unfortunately the term"Caucasiod" was misinterpreted by some as meaning "Caucasian". ... These objections are deeply entwined into the very fiber of the Native American people, much of which has to do with the United States government and it's long standing historical intent to eliminate vs. recognize Native...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This doctrine was when he warned Europe to "Stay out of the Western Hemisphere." ... Europeans and Indians In the earlier days of manifest destiny, America faced four problems. ... The first three issues of European controlled territories were more simply and ethically solved through various purchases of land. ... Firstly, European powers were forcefully acquiring territories in Africa and Asia. ... At the time, America was attempting to distance itself from policies of the old European powers. ...

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In the beginning of the 20th century, U.S government paid Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica and some other Latin America countries foreign debt from European power, Central America and Caribbean countries greatly felt under U.S. economic hegemony. ...

• Word Count: 3191
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate