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    including preparing and serving the food‚ weaving clothing‚ and raising and educating the children. When settlers came to the New World they were appalled to see how the Native American women did all of the traditional and manual labor‚ according to European standards. They worked in and around the house‚ reared the children‚ prepared the food and created pottery. They also worked in the fields tilling the land and farming. What the early explorers noted was the men were leisurely enjoying their lives

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    Dr. Stephen Petranek said‚ ”Some of the greatest advantages in civilization and technology‚ came because we explored.” Humans should not colonize Mars. If humans colonized Mars‚ humans would barely be able to survive. Mars lacks two very crucial products to survive‚ food and oxygen. Humans of the future would not benefit with colonizing Mars because humans who go to Mars‚ will have a risky voyage‚ there is not oxygen‚ and it will cost a lot of money to arrive on Mars. The voyage to Mars is very risky

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    European Explorations European exploration was promoted by factors economic‚ technologic‚ political‚ and religious in different ways. The Treaty of Lodi and the invasion in Italy was a political factor. Portugal’s quest to China and the Spice Islands was an economic factor. New weaponry and sailing aide that was being created was a technological factor. A religious factor was the insistence to Christianize the people. All these factors were promoted from about 1450 to about 1525. The Treaty

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    Armstrong limit which absolutely is the limit for human survival. Average surface pressure is about 0.6% of Earth sea level. A leak in your spacesuit would kill you quickly. No oxygen to speak of either" ("Ten Reasons NOT To Live On Mars - Great Place To Explore"). Mars has such a small atmosphere that humans are not used to and would not be able to live in without a spacesuit. Not having oxygen to breath in safely would be very harmful to humans and it would make it hard to do day to day activities. However

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    In early colonial America‚ there were thirteen colonies. The English started them all‚ but those colonies varied indefinitely. The two primary regions of the colonies were the Chesapeake and the New England Regions. In the very beginnings of these regions‚ there were ample amounts of differences to create two very different American cultures. The first permanent English settlement in America is Jamestown‚ Virginia. Jamestown began as a business venture and then failed. Later a Virginia Company of

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    Calvin Li 2014/12/15 Factors of Individualistic Heroism in America America has a history of only over two hundred years since the day it was established‚ but even within such a short period of time‚ America still has managed to cultivate and nurture its very own‚ distinct cultures and values that support it to climb up to the top of the world. Individualism‚ the core of the American values‚ is what has gotten America this far as it always puts human rights in the first place. And some certain peoples

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    *2. (a) Name four west European countries that explored the New World and name* one explorer who sailed for each country‚ (b) Of the four *explorers‚ named*‚ state the one you would most have liked to accompany. Discuss two reasons for your choices. Four west European explores that traveled to the New World. {draw:frame} {draw:frame} Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 5/20/1506 Jacques Cartier (12/31/1491 – 9/1/1557) {draw:frame} John Cabot_ (c. 1450 – c. 1498)_ Pedro Álvares

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    Europeans Settled in North America over 500 years ago‚ but why? I have three reasons that I think is what pulled the Europeans to settle in North America. My three reasons are freedom of religion‚ the discovery of new land‚ and to find resources that are rare. The first pull factor for the settlement in North America is the freedom of religion. “Catholic leaders in Spain often burned heretics—nonbelievers—in public during the Inquisition of the 1400s and 1500s.” “Heretics” or "nonbelievers" were

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    Why European Immigrants Travelled to America Question: "Describe several reasons Europeans immigrated to the U.S. in the late1800’s..... Progressing through the 1800’s to the turn of the nineteenth century‚ there were dramatic social and societal changes marking a new path for the future of America. The population increased by millions as more and more immigrants sought new lifestyles to match the luxurious ones Americans were rumored to have‚ due to their industrial‚ democratic system. Through

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    The discovery‚ exploration‚ and colonization of foreign lands by the Europeans were driven by three vague yet consistent points. God‚ gold‚ and glory were the three chief reasons for exploration. The motives for Spanish‚ French and English explorers were all different‚ although in some ways‚ they were the same. They all wanted to find the Northwest Passage‚ which they believed was a direct and efficient route to the Orient (home of spices‚ silks and wealth). They also wanted to lay claim to new land

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