HIST 150: Modern African History 08/12/12 African Legacies: Europe and America With every encounter‚ a memory remains‚ no matter how small the event the impact is always present. For the last 6 centuries‚ Europe and America have had a strong influence on Africa. Beginning in 1441 with Portugal’s hand in slavery to the United States and Great Britain part in the Libyan Civil war‚ the Western world has long been attracted to Africa (Hoag Lecture Notes). The legacies left behind are seen as reasons
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The Columbian Exchange was a time when the Old World came in contact with the New World. It is called the Columbian Exchange because Christopher Columbus came to the Americas and traded with the people there which he called Indians. They traded many different things‚ even disease. After a while‚ the Indians realized they would be conquered‚ and that’s what happened. The Europeans would be outnumbered 10 to 1‚ but the Europeans would still win. This is because of disease and new technology. Europeans
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1 My IAT Race Activity results said my automatic preference was European Americans opposed to African Americans. They used pictures of men and women and I was asked to distinguish them by looking at them. Afterwards I was asked to categorize good words like “joy” “happy” or “respectful” with the word “good” and bad words like “angry” “agony” “guilty” or “jealousy” with the word “bad”. In the end the word good was categorized with European Americans and the word bad was categorized with African
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2 - What were some of the changes that took place in Europe between the years 1000 and 1492‚ and why did those changes lead to European exploration and overseas expansion? During the eleventh and fourteenth century‚ Europe had radical social and economic issues. The old-fashioned world which was extremely regulated society was totally feudalism‚ during which all of the people had their place and responsibilities. The manorial system‚ in which the lords owned all the land worked by their serfs‚ began
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Western Europe changed rapidly during the Early Modern Period‚ from around 1450 to 1750: very little remained the same. The shift from feudalism to the development of defined nation states that looked to colonize the New World continued with more centralized forms of parliamentary and absolute monarchies. Colonies helped increase revenue for the West‚ fundamentally altering the economy from its agricultural base during the feudal period to a capitalist world economy with a rising middle class‚ though
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Social Studies Mehdi Mihir Tuesday‚ September 16‚ 2014 729 The World before the Opening of the Atlantic At the start‚ of the Ice Age‚ earth’s climate became intensely cold. Large amounts of water froze into huge‚ moving sheets of ice called glaciers. Abruptly‚ in c. 38‚000-10‚000 BC‚ the Paleo- Indians moved as nomadic bands across to the Americas in response to the rhythm of the seasons and the availability of the resources. Thereafter
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it also happened around the world. Many women spent their whole life to fight for what they believed in and that was Women’s right. Without having the ability to vote‚ women didn’t have a place in society and can’t have a say in what goes around them. Because they just wanted to get the same respect and got their voice in society as any other male. During the time from 1750 to 1914 was a revolutionary in Latin America‚ Western Europe‚ and throughout the rest of the world. Due to the appearance of various
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patterns changed from 1750 to present. Be sure to describe each area’s involvement in global patterns around 1750 as your starting point. Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa East Asia The Middle East Eastern Europe North America South and Southeast Asia 2003 Describe and analyze the cultural‚ economic‚ and political impact of Islam on ONE of the following regions between 1000 C.E. and 1750 C.E. Be sure to discuss continuities as well as changes. West Africa
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The rise of capitalism in western Europe was a dramatic change in comparison to earlier feudal systems; the agricultural means of living that prevailed during the middle ages resulted in lower productivity in comparison to the more technologically advanced capitalism era. The major aspects that exhibit dramatic change when comparing the two time periods are the treatment of labour and the difference in economic growth. Feudalism became apparent in Western Europe‚ in particular‚ England during the
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significant process of state emerging in Europe was in XV-XVII centuries. In XIX century‚ the European states took a modern form that became the ideal type of state as the most famous definition from the German sociologist‚ Max Weber: “is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” (1958‚ 78). The formation of the ideal type had identified the followed politics within the new social organization in the historical process
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