The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.271. ... The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.272. ... The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.272. ...
In addition, the recorded mortality rate was high -- this was still significant even as late as the nineteenth century and was remarked upon by western travelers in North Africa and Egypt. ... By the ninth century slave armies were in use across the whole of the Islamic Empire. ... By the fifteenth century black military slaves were being favored with the use in battle of firearms. Slave troops in Tunisia in the seventeenth century even included cavalry, and the Sultan of Morocco is recorded as having an army of 250,000 black slaves. ...
During the era of the Atlantic trade, slave importation had become an extremely popular commodity among colonists. Some may argue that slavery was completely debauched and unnecessary. On the contrary, slave trade was still a significant stimulus to the development of the colonies. The middle an...
Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... During the first half of the 19th century, the country migrated west. ... America in the eighteenth and nineteenth century was so dynamic and corrupt that money replaced everything and people thrived on its economic vitality. ...
By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ...
By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ...
During the Reformation of the seventeenth century, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), led by George Fox, created their own denomination based on the belief that God is present as an, "Inner Light," in each person. ...
Wars and rebellions were commonplace in seventeenth century Ireland. ... British racism toward the Irish contributed to starvation Since the Norman Invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, the English took an attitude of racism toward the Irish. ...
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. ...
