What is economics all about? Economics is the study of how people choose to use resources. Resources include the time and talent‚ people‚ the land‚ buildings‚ equipment‚ and other tools on hand‚ and the knowledge of how to combine them to create useful products and services. We make all kinds of choices every day. Economics is about making choices. Many people hear the word "economics" and think it is all about money. Economics is not just about money. It is about weighing different choices or alternatives
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The Economic and Political Causes of European Exploration and Colonization By 1400s‚ European countries began to dominate the globe with trade and advanced technologies. England‚ Spain‚ France and Portugal emerged as the strongest nations in the 1400s and 1500s. For reasons separate for each‚ the dominant European powers desired to expand their reign beyond Europe. Europeans began exploring various economic reasons‚ but they did not want to set up colonies right away. However‚ political reasons
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The French in Indochina Creation Before French colonization‚ Indochina was broken up into three independent‚ separate countries in Asia. They were known as the Khmer Empire (Cambodia)‚ the Laotian Kingdom (Laos)‚ and Vietnam. The Vietnamese were ruled by emperors from neighboring China for hundreds of years before the French took over. The emperors had nominal rule however. One of the old social facts of pre-Indochina included the emperors collecting revenue. But the taxes were
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Prompt: What were the long-term economic‚ social‚ and political effects of Reconstruction? The United States was challenged with many issues after the Civil War like crop lien work contracts‚ segregation‚ and unresolved problems with the seceded states. This period was called Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ African Americans were free but with no place to live in or to work at‚ they settled with their former ‘masters’. African Americans were technically free‚ but no one wanted to hire a colored
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dealing with Indians (Jaimes‚ p141). The fledgling government understood that changing the worlds perception was paramount to the survival both politically and economically of the United States (Jaimes‚ p141). What the Continental Congress hoped to gain from the Natives was legitimacy as a nation. If the United States entered into treaties with these nations in the same fashion as other countries it would in turn signal to the world that the United States was recognized on some level as a nation
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Why did civil war break out in 1642? Why did civil war break out? Well for about 17 years parliament and king Charles 1 hadn’t been getting on well and it didn’t help that parliament hadn’t really got on with Charles’ dad James 1 or Charles’ close advisors. They mainly got on each other’s nerves about money‚ religion and power‚ as well as the short term causes and all the extra things! Soon it got too much and Charles declared war on the 22nd August 1642. Charles sort of started the civil
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the globe of how ethnically related politics‚ or ethnopolitcs‚ have infiltrated the international political arena. One such case‚ and the focus of this essay‚ is the case of Basque nationalism in Spain. In order to tackle a subject of this complexity‚ this essay will review a brief history of the Basque people‚ including: historical ties to the land‚ language and literature. Furthermore‚ the political situation in both during the times of General Franco’s regime and post-Franco Spain are examined
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The French and Indian War was 1740 through 1766 altered the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. Politically the relations were altered between Britain and its American colonies because Britain returned to the colonies in 1763 and further enclosed its Colonists more snugly in its grip‚ as seen in documents A‚ B‚ and C. The French and Indian War altered the economic changes between Britain and its American colonies because the American leadership
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kept them away from their family. These events took place in the south‚ but in 1861 the north and the president Abraham Lincoln didn’t agree with slavery. This started the civil war that lasted for 4 years (1861 - 1865). After the war the north won‚ which led to slavery being abolished. Even though the North won the war‚180‚000 African Americans participated in the North’s army to abolish slavery. Some were from the North‚ while others were escaped
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Absolutism was the most significant cause of the French Revolution because it forced a weak leader such as Louis XVI to have the power to ruin a whole country. Absolutism is a form of government in which the king or queen has absolute control over the land and people. King Louis XIV‚ an absolute monarch and heir‚ inherited the French throne at his grandfather’s death in 1643. He was only 5 at the time he started to rule. Louis XIV has been perceived in history as someone who is lazy‚ shy and awkward
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