Significance: The Iroquois‚ originating from present day New York‚ began to prosper after their dealings with the French‚ and later the Dutch in the fur trade. Eager to expand their territories strategically‚ they divided into the five nations of Senecas‚ Cayugas‚ Onondagas‚ Oneidas‚ and Mohawks‚ compiling into a confederation. Granted from the fur trade‚ these Natives had ample access to guns‚ steels and other goods to help conquer and wage on both European and fellow Native American settlements
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Locally Grown Food COM/150 May 30‚ 2010 The consumer food movement has made terms like; fresh‚ natural‚ and organic everyday words. Now this same movement has brought a new word to the American lexicon; “Locavore.” In 2007‚ it was picked as the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. By definition it means someone who prefers locally grown foods to foods commercially produced. The natural and organic food movements‚ always conscientious of food quality and environmental
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economic aspects of Britain and Spain’s colonial enterprise” The colonial enterprises of Spain and Britain differ. Spain and Britain’s economic aspects differ greatly. Their social aspects differ as well. Even their political aspects differ greatly. The social‚ political‚ and economic aspects of Britain and Spain’s colonial enterprises differ immensely. Spain and Britain’s economic aspects differ. When people from Britain first settled in the Americas they were part of a privately owned company
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Notes A.) Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations‚ converting them to Christianity‚ and incorporating them‚ along with enslaved and free Africans‚ into the Spanish colonial society. The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals
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religion‚ and science in the colonial America all started with colonial demographics such as cheap land‚ gender equality‚ early marriage‚ high birth rate‚ and rapid population growth. During those times the women were viewed inferior to men‚ and remained behind the scenes as it was a part of the English tradition but over time changes were made to those thoughts (p 110‚111). When it came to economy‚ trade was flourishing among England and another thriving colonial trading company. They
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own their on and function well. In the middle colonies people owned huge estates. The Southern Colonies of course‚ were the most southern colony. They had the best land to farm out of all three regions. Their whole economy was farming. Their cash crops were tobacco and rice. That is how people in Southern Colonies made their living. People living down in the southern colonies weren’t very religious. They didn’t care if you went to church or not. They really had religious tolerance. Since the land
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HORTICULTURAL CROPS (AGR452) (APR 2011) Question 1 a) Define the following terms:- (5m) i) Horticulture:- the science and art of cultivating flowers‚ fruits‚ vegetables‚ turf and ornamental plants in an orchard‚ garden‚ nursery or greenhouse on anlarge or small scale. Often considered as those require intensive culture and grown in small areas. ii) Horticulturist :- A noun reffering to a specialist in horticulture. b) 5 common examples of classification used in horticulture
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In early America‚ unfree labor was originally done by indentured servants. As time went on‚ changes in the laws created the condition of chattel slavery. Slaves and indentured servants differed both in the way they were treated‚ and in their possible futures. (I am assuming I am supposed to write an essay about how they differed). In early colonial America‚ arable and available land was plentiful. Even though Native American tribes such as the Iroquois and the Anasazi had made their homes here for
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distinctions between orthodox and unorthodox practices were distinguished (and oftentimes blurred). You may look at Staden‚ the readings on witchcraft and “superstition‚” etc. Beginning in 1492 when the Spanish under the crown of Castile invaded the Americas‚ where their first settlement was in Santo Domingo‚ their main motivations were trade and the spread of the Catholic faith through indigenous conversions and economic gain. Due to these objectives they intervened and attempted to change every facet
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TEXT 1 CASH CROP In agriculture‚ a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit. The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops‚ which are those fed to the producer’s own livestock or grown as food for the producer’s family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small (but vital) part of a farm’s total yield‚ while today‚ especially in the developed countries‚ almost all crops are mainly grown for cash. In non-developed nations‚ cash crops are usually crops which attract
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