The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean, once a formidable barrier that prevented regular interaction between those peoples inhabiting the four continents it touched, became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas for the first time. ... For several cent...

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It is not until the early eighteenth century, that the Tuscaroras migrated from South Carolina to join the Iroquois and make it the Six Nations. ... With Portugal absent the Dutch were finally able to participate in the foreign trade with India, and get some of the income which imperialism offered to those nations participating during the seventeenth century. ...

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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. ... The English and Dutch colonized South Africa in the seventeenth century. ... And, the discovery of diamonds in these newly founded colonies, around 1900, resulted in an English raids throughout South Africa during the early eighteenth century. ...

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In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. ... The poet also describes a centuries-old hunting custom of natives walking in a line through the long grass and beating it to flush out prey. ...

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