During the 1800s‚ Europeans began to have their eyes set on the continent of Africa‚ as they went after their natural resources. As they scrambled for Africa‚ their hypocritical actions enraged some Africans while others just gave in to the Europeans since they had more technology‚ and seemed more powerful. Some African nations‚ tired of the European treatment towards them‚ decided to unite and fight them. (Doc7).Others simply stood firm and didn’t want anything from the Europeans. They didn’t want
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IX. Polk the Purposeful Polk laid out a 4-point mission for himself and the nation (then achieved all 4 points in 4 years) Lower the tariff Restore the independent treasury (put U.S. money into non-government banks) Clear up the Oregon border issue Get California One of Polk’s acts was to lower the tariff‚ and his secretary of the treasury‚ Robert J. Walker‚ did so‚ lowering the tariff from 32% to 25% despite complaints by the industrialists. Despite warnings of doom‚ the new tariff was
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During the 1600’s‚ waves of Puritans immigrated to the New World‚ colonizing in the area of Boston. In contrast to Chesapeake region’s inhabitants‚ the Puritan settlers did not come for economic interests‚ but rather for a desire to create a more “pure” society of Christianity. The Puritans had a huge impact on the way the New England region developed. By organizing their society based on their desire to have a government of theocracy‚ the Puritans made sure their values and ideas had a major influence
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Hammurabi Hammurabi lived nearly 4‚000 years ago and was ruler of a kingdom called Babylonia for 42 years. When he was in power‚ he ruled over approximately 1‚000‚000 people. When Hammurabi took power in 1792 B.C.E. he was king of most of Mesopotamia‚ the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In his 38th year of power‚ Hammurabi was instructed by the “god” of justice‚ Shamash‚ to have a Code of Law carved on a stone stele‚ (a large pillar-like stone). Hammurabi had 282 laws (BGE)‚ but the
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The three decades following the Berlin conference were chaotic as European powers competed to occupy and colonize Africa. Europe would be profiting off the resources that they collected from their reaction to far much weaker subordinate African colonies. As Europe’s wealth amassed‚ Africa’s wealth approached its end. It was soon Eu European intruders as a much stronger force than themselves and lost all their ties to older tradition through fear. In 1886‚ the British government commissioned and administered
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The first thing you need to do is review the DBQ rubric sheet‚ your essay & my comments. - Did you answer the prompt …or did you merely interpret documents? - If you tried to do POV‚ did you get it or not? Look closely at what you wrote for POV. General Comments: - The word is Confucian –not Confusion‚ Confucious‚ nor even Confucionis. You need to write the right word so at the AP reading they don’t laugh at you J! - These are pretty decent DBQ’s
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Chapter 4 Big Picture Questions 1. What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter? • All empires controlled large areas and populations. • All empires were brought together by conquest and funded in part by extracting wealth from conquered peoples. • All empires stimulated the exchange of ideas‚ cultures‚ and values among the peoples they conquered. • All empires sought to foster an imperial identity that transcended more local identities and loyalties. • All
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enlightened‚ educated‚ well-rounded people. He went on to say that they were very open to and accepting of other cultures. It’s not surprising that Kalphoglou would’ve felt this way because he was a Greek Christian and most likely would be proud of his own history. Similarly‚ in document 7‚ Percy Shelley was also a poet who believed Greek culture was essential for all other cultures to grow. She‚ however‚ was an English romantic poet. It’d be expected for her to praise Greece because romantic poets were all
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sharply contrasts with the Islamic pro - merchant attitude towards trade. Both Christianity and Islam’s attitudes gradually became more neutral‚ more moderate towards the end of the Post - Classical. The sharpest contrast between the views of Christians and Merchants towards trade can be seen during their respective religion’s origins‚ as exemplified in Documents 1‚ 2 and 3. Document 1 illustrates the founder of Christianity‚ Jesus’ negative view towards merchants and trade‚ along with Document 3 illustrating
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DBQ: Chapter Seven The Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade routes were trading systems essential to exchange from the coast of China all the way throughout the Mediterranean. The Indian Ocean trade routes used sailing vessels that often carried colonists from Indonesia to Madagascar. While both routes were important‚ the Silk Road was used more frequently than the former. The Silk Road was about 4‚00 miles long and stretched from Iran to China. It passed through mountain ranges of the Himalayas
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