Although they were not the first Europeans in the Philippines‚ the first well documented arrival of western Europeans in the archipelago was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan‚ which first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ making landfall the following day at the small‚ uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.[1] Magellan had abandoned his Portuguese citizenship and became a Spanish subject prior to his contract
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In contemporary Australia‚ the history of colonisation has had its own adverse dramatic effect on the indigenous societies. Colonisation has mostly affected the cultural and economic life of the indigenous people‚ particularly their central relationship with land and waters. Tribal enterprise began to increase considerably during the 1990s across Australia. It was not until 1992 that the High Court in Australia made a popular decision in Mabo v Queensland (No2) [1992] 175 CLR1‚ which held that the
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Is Mars Colonization a Good Idea? Among celestial bodies in our solar system‚ Mars is remarkable in that it possesses all the raw resources required to sustain not only life‚ but a new branch of individual evolution. The time to colonize Mars would certainly be required when the Earth becomes uninhabitable as the global warming rises up. When that happens‚ Mars has the potential to become the most habitable planet in our solar system. Nevertheless‚ even with positive extrapolation of robotic manufacturing
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Elizabeth 1 argues that dividing up English resources is a bad idea Colonies were a bad idea 2: wanted to put government funding toward protestant causes 3 Sir Walter Ralegh was the earliest Englishman to make an actual attempt at colonization 1 America became attractive to English policy makers in 1580s 4 1http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=W8cr4Vgt9ekC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Roanoke+Colony&ots=ys19S_6b9o&sig=PnfDZvsafb5iFv5-ycyG_X3i2lY#v=onepage&q=Roanoke%20Colony&f=false
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English investors often turned over their colonial charters to the settlers. The political implications‚ although not realized at the time‚ were enormous. The colonists were left to build their own lives‚ their own communities‚ and their own economy in effect‚ to start constructing the rudiments of a new nation. What early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition‚ fishing was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies‚ people lived
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Martha Lee ENG 92W 4/13/10 In Annie John‚ the lasting effects of Antigua’s colonization are reflected through Kincaid paralleling her own experiences with those of the West Indian colonies where she has lived. In‚ Columbus in Chains‚ the issues of Antiguan colonialism and postcolonial culture are apparent in the text‚ beginning with Annie’s discussion of the history of slavery in Antigua through Ruth. “I could see how Ruth felt from looking at her face. Her ancestors had been the masters‚
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Hawai’i By: Kaleem Minor In January 1778‚ James Cook of Britain made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first European to ever visit the island group‚ which he named the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his patrons‚ John Montague‚ the Earl of Sandwich. The ships then made a brief stop at Ni’ihau‚ the seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands‚ and headed north to look for the western end of a northwest passage from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Almost one year
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By the end of the sixteenth century‚ Portuguese hegemony that was in the Indian Ocean was growing weak (359). Portugal was a small country with an even smaller population. With its size‚ Portugal was not able to keep up with the demand that came with a large seaborne trading empire. In the late sixteenth century‚ investors from other areas began to put expeditions together so that trips could be made to Asian markets. Some of the most prominent followers of the Portuguese were the English and Dutch
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The Legacy of Colonization: Haiti "Two hundred years ago‚ our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom‚ which was heard around the world‚ and across centuries." – Baldwin Spencer The Legacy of Colonization It is true that the effects of colonization‚ or the establishment‚ maintenance‚ and domination over a nation and its people‚ thus creating a political and economic domination and dependency between the colonizer and the colony‚ are in fact still felt centuries later in present day Haiti
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history to learn about past events and to build upon them. These events could be either negative or positive and play a significant role in peoples’ lives. Colonization of North America played an important role in shaping lives of indigenous people. The colonizers were Euro-Americans such as‚ Britain‚ France‚ Spain and Portugal. The history of colonization of North America is rich with events that played out upon the indigenous lives and political landscape; the Euro-Americans did not like the indigenous
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