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    Although many people have very different opinions on whether America is really the best country in the world‚ the facts show that is the best liked. There are so many reason why everyone should like America. We have many rights that satisfy the populis. First and foremost‚ our military system has grown over the years we have gone from a small military to a great humongous military. Our military is one of the best militaries in the entire world. Our military is one that everyone can trust‚ people

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    Thinking back to Ferdinand and Isabella’s choice to colonize the New World‚ I believe they made the right decision. Even though I now know the terrible consequences that their decision inflicted on the native people‚ my position remains that colonization was worth the cost. Columbus’ letter described the New World; Hispana like it was a place for the gods. Perhaps‚ in the eyes of Europeans it was a paradise. Europe was suffering from a lack of resources‚ polluted rivers‚ and overpopulated landscapes

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    populated by millions of natives that stretched out from Mexico all the way down South America. With a force of fewer than 1 thousand men supported by horses and cannons‚ never before had such a puny force conquered the most powerful native tribe of this earth‚ and gathered such a massive wealth. This conquest was not an easy one‚ problems involved where trying to convert natives to his side‚ so that he may conquer the new world and converting these people to the catholic religion. Nevertheless more

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    The first European Americans When people think about the new world‚ they might think why did European sail across the globe to the new world? Why did Chinese‚ for example‚ did not want to sail? The answer to that is Europeans‚ unlike Chinese or any other group of people‚ had two main reasons that made them interested to sail to the new world. Europeans were motivated by their poverty‚ and their motive to convert the world to Christianity. In other words‚ Europeans were motivated by “God‚ gold‚ and

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    European Empires in the Americans: By using the oceanic way‚ the Western Europe’s places expanded among the Americas‚ and it conquered most of the lands by the mid-19th century. British‚ French‚ and Dutch‚ which dropped out‚ are examples of colonies in the North America‚ and Spain and Portugal were colonies in the South America. The European got benefits from the movement towards the Americas. Their Atlantic states were well placed that they could straightly reach the Americas‚ which were beneficial

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    In the beginning‚ the Europeans that immigrated to America often did so because of one of two things; religious reasons or economic opportunity. They brought new ideas and new religions to the Americas. The Quaker Colonies of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were formed by English Protestants who wanted a place where they could worship their religion in peace‚ with social order. These people looked to America for asylum. The Europeans also established colonies in The Caribbean Islands. The Spanish

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    century expansion became a key theme across the face of Early Modern Europe; this caused the sixteenth century to acquire the retrospective name of the Age of Expansion or Age of Discovery. According to the historian Richard Mackenney the cause of European expansion during this period can be explained in terms of three major symptoms: overseas discovery‚ population growth and price inflation all of which are tied together in a complex multiplicity making in difficult to isolate one symptom from the

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    The European Conquest of The Americas One of the primary reasons for exploration was the search for the Northwest Passage‚ an imaginary path that could be used to reach Asia without having to go around Africa‚ or through the Middle East. The Panamanians proved that travel was possible around Africa with a new kind of boat that utilized wind better‚ but the Spaniards and other Europeans were more interested in a more direct approach to reaching Asia. So they began to head westward. The Queen of

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    they left the Hutu people in charge. The Hutu were furious with the Tutsi for all the years of forced slavery they had to endure by their fellow countrymen. In 1959 the Hutu’s initiated a revolution that caused as many as 300‚000 Tutsi’s to flee the country. By early 1961 the Hutu’s had forced the Tutsi leader

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    Thesis What was slavery in America for blacks? When an individual hears or reads this question‚ what goes through this persons’ mind? For many‚ like myself‚ they immediately think of bad conditions‚ beatings‚ ripping people from their homeland and racism. Three major questions come to mind when I think of slavery in Americawhy did it exist? What was slavery like? And lastly‚ what did it do to America? Through my personal readings I have come to understand these three questions and the vast answers

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