The south German states agreed to join the German Empire and William I was declared the emperor of Germany. ... When Britain took land from Dutch settlers in South Africa, they had to leave and settle more upward of Africa. ... Rhodes established rich gold mines and they conquered their rivals in the South African War. By 1910 South Africa was untied with the old Cape Colony and Natal in a new Union of South Africa. ... Germany established protectorates over African kingdoms and tribes in Togo, South Africa, and later East Africa. ...

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In other words, it was the separation of North and South American from Eurasia and Africa. ... The great Exchange concerned both the West and the East in the exchange of goods, animals, slaves, plants, and ideas. ... When Europeans first grazed the borders of the Americas, Old World crops had not traveled west across the Atlantic and New World crops had not traveled east to Europe. ... New World crops such as maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc had not traveled east to Europe. ... This economy had a devastating effect on Africa and reaped agricultural wealth and materials from t...

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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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Jared Diamond discovered that the topography of the Eurasian continent is wider, the width of Eurasia from east to west is around 8,000 miles. Meanwhile the America continent is longer, the length of America continent from north to south is around 8,000 miles. Since the Fertile Crescent is in the middle of the Eurasian continent, and because the west and east of the Eurasian continent share the same latitude, the same day length, the same climate zone and the same vegetation as the Fertile Crescent, the civilization easily spread horizontally west and east in Eurasia. ... Another example is i...

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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 production occurred much more rapidly from east to west, than from north to south, because the climate, environment, and geography is more similar...

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After conquering the Silk Road, a network of trade networks that connected East, South, and Western Asia with Europe, Genghis Khan realized how important it had become to his empire, seeing how much easier travel was for his soldiers. ... He did this by evenly dividing up the city into sections for different communities such as the Middle East and China. 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 merc...

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Lower paid disadvantaged groups have become concentrated in certain districts within Paris, while the more affluent wealthier groups have moved predominantly to the "beaux quartiers" in the west of the city with newer wealthier suburbs developing to the south east. ... The foreign population of France is estimated to be about 14% of the total population, with African and Asian migrants making the bulk of this figure. Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Turks ass well as immigrants from black Africa. These immigrants have mainly manual jobs and also tend to live in disadvantaged regions, l...

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Britain got colonial possessions that it had occupied during the war, including Malta, Ceylon, and South Africa. Holland lost Ceylon and South Africa but got Belgium. ... In First World War the Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and czarist were eliminated and Japan was confined to Far East. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ...

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It is currently widely accepted that as modern human beings emerged from Africa some 100,000 years ago, this new species spread eastward, through Asia, even to Australia, before any of its members entered what must, to people from a warm continent, have seemed a cold and inhospitable environment. ... After this happened about 35,000 years ago, some 1200 generations were to pass before civilization, in the form of farming, spreading from the Middle East, began to supplant the hunter-gatherer economy of the Stone Age inhabitants of Europe. ... It was westward to this agricultural society &qu...

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