This paper will discuss the poverty in Latin America. Latin America has always been in poverty and although there have been some ups and downs‚ the poverty level remains great. First‚ we will discuss the region that is known as Latin America‚ the determining factors of poverty‚ the statistics and history of the poverty in Latin America and the future of the poverty in Latin America. Latin America refers to the areas of America in which the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail. These areas include
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The expansion of Western Europe started with the Iberian phase. Spain and Portugal‚ the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a short-lived yet important role in European expansion. European expansion then turned to Western Europe. Western Europe consists of the Dutch‚ French‚ and British. While Western Europe was exploring new worlds overseas‚ the Russians were expanding westward across all of Eurasia. Religion played a major role in expansion for both the Portuguese and the Spanish due
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The Changes of the Social Structure in Society Society’s obsession with the rankings of social class has been a problem for many years‚ and it will likely continue to be obsessed over. However‚ the classification of the people within each class has changed over time. The official definition of social class is: a broad group in society having common economic‚ cultural‚ or political status. One popular story that was written during a time when the top social class was the mercantile class was The
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World History Islam in the 600 C.E to 1450 The period from 600 C.E to 1450 is often referred to as the Post Classical period. There were many developments and reforms that occurred during this period however one of the most important events that happened was the establishment and the spread of Islam. Islam is a very prominent religion in the world for its profound values and principles. During the Post Classical Era‚ Islam from the Middle East was considered a persistent religion but it also
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the world was experiencing many changes‚ some of which included religion. There were many changes in religion in Western Europe during the Early Modern Period (1450-1750) including changes in the Roman Catholic Church‚ due to the Protestant Reformation‚ and the creation of the Church of England; however‚ a constant throughout this period was the fact that Western Europe remained predominately Christian. At the beginning of the Early Modern Era most of Western Europe was Roman Catholic‚ however towards
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The economic and social gap between Latin America and North America is certainly a mixture of path-dependence causes‚ and current economic behaviors. This is mainly because‚ on one hand history legacies‚ are essential to understand the current patter of unequal or unstable growth. On the other‚ economic prosperity is also about the degree to which each region has been capable of changing over time and adapting to external factors in order to create continued growth. Mahoney‚ aims to explain the
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money. What factors helped Feudalism to develop in Western Europe during the ninth and the tenth centuries? Describe the major characteristics of the political system of Feudalism. The factors that helped Feudalism to develop in Western Europe were that during the ninth and tenth centuries the people were in desperate for help because first thing was that they didn’t have a proper government order or anything‚ and the Vikings from Germany had come and sacked the cities‚ villages and also
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countries that led most of the exploration of South and Central America were Spain and Portugal. They have introduced many changes to the new conquered territory. It all begins with the search for better access to new routes of trade with Asia. At the European explorations‚ countries like Spain and Portugal were the pioneers in the discovery and conquest of new lands. Portugal and Spain during their voyages accidentally came upon the western hemisphere; then soon started to exploit the new land such as
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Despite how the trade economy expanded and the political status increased in Western Europe (600 - 1750 C.E.)‚ there was much political disunity throughout Western Europe. After the discovery of the Americas‚ much changed in Western Europe’s economy. Because the start of mining and beginning of cash crops‚ they needed to import slaves. This created the Triangle Trade‚ and therefore brought much wealth to Western Europe. There was a large silver inflation because of the mining‚ and Spain and Portugal
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Latin America has the worst distribution of wealth in the world. The gap between rich and poor is one of the biggest‚ and much higher than it is in the industrialized countries or the regions of the Third World. The continent has an unclear privilege of rich people with a society in extreme poverty conditions‚ while in some countries the proportion of poor has stabilized‚ the absolute number has been growing every year. Because of corruption in the political states‚ lack of social interest in the
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