No, Columbus did not discover a new country that no one knew about because native habitants were already settled in the Indies and Americas. ... The Indian in the more North American region lived very scattered and secluded, there were many different languages and different customs. ... Unlike the more simple life of the Indians up north in what is now North America, civilizations like the Aztecs had wealth and power and dominated tribes nearby. ... The Spanish empire reached from Mexico throughout the southwest of North America all the way to the Caribbean. ... When the much smaller tribes...

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In North America the era began with the downward thrusts of the earths crust along the eastern, southeastern and western sides of the continent while the interior was dry land. ... Great crystal commotion marked the end of the Paleozoic era and the beginning of the topography of North America. ... Pangaea later began to split into two super continents and North Africa began to rift apart. By later Mesozoic, tectonic activity increased dramatically, the new Indian Ocean began to open up, and the Atlantic Ocean began to open along the rift zone separating the Americas from Europe and Africa. ....

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Some environmentalists recommend that the Falkland Islands and the southern tip of South America be declared uninhabitable due to the amount of cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation that its residents are exposed to. ... NASA officials attribute the more recent depletion of the ozone layer to natural meteorological processes, pointing out the fact that, if industrial chemicals are the cause of ozone depletion, the first holes in the layer should have appeared over the Arctic region, or over North America and Europe. ... Fortunately, carbon monoxide reduction and pollution controls have reduc...

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After the American Revolution, the new nation of the United States stood as one of the biggest countries, extending twelve hundred miles from north to south, from Maine to Georgia. ... Although the decades following the American Revolution is often times associated as an era of change, both subtle and abrupt, many things remained the same in the American daily life. ... The American population grew from four million in 1790 to more than seventeen million in 1840. ... As spoken by Thomas Jefferson's secretary, Albert Gallatin, "We have no villages in America," instead American ...

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Still, Americans remained aloof, and as in the WWI, contributed mostly with supplies for the Allied troops. ... Meanwhile, Americans lived under the guise of safety and in relative prosperity. ... With America finally involved, there was hope for an end to this dreadful conflict. ... Hawaii served as America's midway point between the mainland and Japan, and although the Japanese attempted to wipe out much of those offenses in the Pearl Harbor attacks, the American naval fleet struck back with a vengeance. ... Still today, warnings of possible nuclear-based terrorist attacks, and of No...

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In doing so we found the respective revenues per store to be: Latin America - $34.4 million, North America - $23.1 million, Asia - $21.5 million, and Europe - $10.5 million. Latin America makes up 26% of existing stores but contributes 38% to revenue while Europe makes up 20% of the store base but only contributes to 9% of revenue. North America and Asia/Pacific make up 50% and 4% of stores and contribute evenly to revenue at 49% and 4% respectively. ... We expect this to improve the outlooks for revenue generation in underperforming regions like Europe in hopes of raising it to North Americ...

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When you look at the map of the world, you see how well the east coast of North and South America fits into the west coast of Europe and Africa. ... An example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean, which stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole. ... You can see this along the Pacific coast of South-America. ...

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In other words, it was the separation of North and South American from Eurasia and Africa. ... These crops are a very important part of America today. ... European's explored and exploited the Americas. ... Decades after Europe discovered America, Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans began to interact. ... The next century, English and French colonists would settle in North America and the Caribbean. ...

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Meanwhile the America continent is longer, the length of America continent from north to south is around 8,000 miles. ... Since Smallpox and Black Death seemed never to have appeared on the America continent, Diamond stated that some of the Incas were infected by those new germs and virus before the wars. ... Another example is in the 1830s, the European colonized the tribes in North Africa and expanded their lands, but they were having trouble with sickness, such as the mosquito epidemic. ...

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August 1914 one of the most historic events in history began. This was the beginning of the First World War, a war that had never been seen before. It involved every major European nation as well as North America and Japan. There was nothing that could have prepared the world for this war it chan...

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He then goes on to compare the extinction of big game in Australia and New Guinea to that in the Americas, then talks about early tools. 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 producti...

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To make a point, the editors of "Macworld- recently investigated a group of prominent Americans, people who usually take more steps than the average citizen to hide personal information. ... When the common criminal becomes computer-literate, America will be in trouble. ... Oliver North deleted electronic mail, but the e-mail lived on and last year was published as a book. ...

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Currently, company driven expatriations are on a rise, among the most popular expatriate countries, the rankings are led by: Germany, Belgium, Spain, France and Russia in Europe, USA and Canada the in North America, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa. [1] As the need for development of global leadership and the growth of new business ventures abroad increases, a massive rise in global mobility is to be observed. ...

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This was done to increase interest in profits from international trade. 11 Eventually, Khanbalik was host to merchants from several other far away countries, such as Italy, India, and North Africa.12 What is more, he decided to let Muslim merchants, called ortoq, to use the yam as well, but on the condition that he was allowed to tax them for using it.13 In addition, China allowed the Mongols to use their ports, such as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and even China's Grand Canal, to trade by boat, making trade between the two areas easier.14 Along with China, Kublai also had a good trading network...

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Not only is this trend a continuing factor in the constuction and implementation of United States Foreign Policy, but holds true for the 3 Post-Modern regional powers of the world: The America's, Europe, and East Asia. ... I agree with Kupchan that America should be willing to slowly wean off Europe and East Asia of their dependence on U.S. ... Country GDP (as of 1/1/00) Military Spending as of (1/1/00) China $4.8 trillion $12.608 billion Mongolia 6.1 billion 20 million North Korea 22.6 billion 4.9 billion South Korea 625.7 billion 9.9 billion Japan 2.95 trillion 42.9 billion Taiw...

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Electricity, Steel and Oil The three major improvements of the second Industrial Revolution were in the areas of energy and metal. It was based on oil, steel and electricity rather than coal and iron. The use of new materials made the second Industrial Revolution increase in size and technology, an...

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The Spanish had colonies in South America ( Mexico) and they supplied the Hapsburg Empire with gold and silver. ... MittleEuropa was a piece of land where the north was Protestant and the south was Catholic. ... Spain was heavily dependent on supplies coming from its lucrative colonies in South America and elsewhere. ...

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Introduction The fundamental reason for colonization is to take the assets, both nature and human, of the possessed regions to upgrade and fortify the vanquishers. After the sixteenth century, different realms were colonizing countries and domains everywhere throughout the world. The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Japanese utilized their military force and the created innovation to extend their domains and searching for more regions. The time of imperialism had at long last over. Then again, life of numerous individuals in the colonized nations had fundamentally changed and influence...

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... The Naka'ela in Maluku, Indonesia, reportedly decreased in number after moving down from the mountains to a coastal town on Seram Island. 3 Colonization and the introduction of a new language into the territory of a existent cultural group can also put at risk the traditional language, as with the Hawaiian people, who now form only about 20% of the total population in their traditional territory.4 The most widely known example is that of North America, where the colonizers forced the native population to speak the la...

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