a pathway for the trade of knowledge. Goods were not the only thing traded on the Silk Road though so was disease. The most notable was the Bubonic Plague‚ or in layman’s terms the Black plague. The plague originated from the Mongols and spread westward with the help of the Silk Road. With so many merchants from all over the spread was inevitable. Whether goods were carried from animal or boat the plague was transferred from one man to the next. Anything that reached the Silk Road was spread across
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recognized the “geologic timescape”. The second half of the 19th century saw an explosion of study‚ punctuated by discoveries by Othneil Marsh and Edward Cope. Their digging rivalry was referred to as “The Bone Wars.” In the United States expansion westward during the Civil War spurred a marked growth in the collection of fossils. Modern day developments in fossil studies include: radiometric dating and plate tectonics. The study of fossils can give us a better understanding of our world. We can
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and helped providing America with many animals. The west looked to provide for America by growing plants‚ due to the very fertile soil. The west quickly became known as the nation’s “breadbasket”. The sold animals and crops to America‚ and this westward expansion developed a talent that America craved. The west played a role in the antebellum period of America‚ but didn’t nearly touch the relationship issues between the east and south. The northeastern states of America were advancing in their
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Brooke Lucas Professor Ramirez History 147 30 October 2013 Essay Question 1) How was the policy of “separate but equal” established and what exactly did it mean? Provide specific examples of how “separate but equal” was applied in the United States. How it started: Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Plessy: 7/8ths white 1/8th black boarded an all white train car. The conductor asked of his race‚ so he told him. He sent him to the all colored railcar. Plessy refused and he was immediately arrested.
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Allen exhibits the opinion of William Brandon: "Of the approximately 150 million acres owned by the Indians in 1880... over ninety million acres... were extracted from the Indians’ pocket." She also alludes directly to the holocaust by describing the westward expansion as such‚ and provides further allusion by relating schools to
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Frederick Jackson Turner discusses this idea in his excerpts from the “Turner Thesis” written on July 12‚ 1893. He touches on this idea when he speaks about how America adapted and learned from the cultures in which it conquered as the country moved in westward expansion. Such as when Americans learned from the Natives and began to use horseback for war tactics. This gave the Americans an advantage and allowed them to continue advancing forward. With each new opponent they faced‚ they would gather new ways
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was the name of “New France” or the French territory in the middle of North America. The French’s expansion in the middle of North America led to conflict between the French and the English colonies because it prevented the English from expanding westward. The French shared the land with the Natives and allied with them. The Natives were the Iroquois Confederacy. This possession of land by the French led to much bloodshed between the French‚ English‚ and Natives. Iroquois Confederacy: They were
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Ans. (d) Q.5. The methods used to oust the Indian Americans were : (a) numerous wars in which Indians were massacred and many villages burnt (b) after defeat‚ the Indian Americans were forced to sign treaties to give up their lands and move westwards (c) both (a) and (b) (d) peaceful negotiations Ans. (c) Q.6. Why did the white settlers want to push away the Indian Americans from their lands? (a) The land possessed by the Indians could be turned into
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across North Africa very early after the death of Muhammad‚ spreading from Egypt in the 7th century reaching all the way to the Atlantic by the 8th. The spread of Islam in North Africa is similar to the way Europeans colonized America in that it was a westward spread across the continent. However‚ unlike the colonizing powers of America who strived to dissociate themselves from their European origins‚ the Arabs were in pursuit of establishing an Islamic identity throughout North Africa. The Arabs did not
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BIG 25 CHRISITNA REBH 1. Assess the democratic characteristics in the English Colonies in the context of Massachusetts and Virginia Plymouth: Plymouth was a colony settled by Pilgrims who were religious separatists. They migrated to America to maintain their English identity. Since they didn’t have a royal charter‚ they created the Mayflower Compact. It was essentially the first American constitution. The Puritans created a political structure that highlighted their self-governing and
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