CHAPTER THREE THE THREE ERAS OF TAXATION IN NIGERIA General Historical Overview of Taxation Taxes are as old as the history of organised human society. During the reign of the Pharaohs in Egypt tax collectors were called scribes and taxes were collected on various items including cooking oil.1 In the ancient Greek city of Athens‚ taxes were especially important in times of war. The tax imposed during times of war was known as eisphora and no one was exempted from this tax. After the war
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converting them to Christianity‚ and incorporating them‚ along with enslaved and free Africans‚ into the Spanish colonial society. The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals
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Department of English & MEL University of Allahabad‚ Allahabad Colonial Enchanter: Postcolonial Enchantress Postcolonialism is a relation of centre and margin‚ oppressor and oppressed‚ colonizer and colonized or in the words of Aime Cesaire “relations of domination and submission.‟‟ Postcolonialism is largely concerned with the politics of culture and postcolonial studies “involves the critical examination of European representations of colonial peoples and the production of counter discourse designed
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Why does innovation need to be supported? Public sector innovation does not happen by itself: problems need to be identified and ideas translated into projects which can be piloted on a small scale and then implemented and diffused. This requires public sector organisations to identify the processes and structures which can support and accelerate the innovation activity at each stage of its lifecycle. While there is a growing body of evidence on innovative practices in the public sector‚ there is
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self-identification refers to a group addressing themselves as belonging to a particular culture or people as a whole. Incaism began to notably occur after the break up of the Inca Empire due to Spanish colonization mostly among groups that had no actual Inca origin. The concept of Incaism during the colonial period was predominantly an Indian “re-conceptualization of a past as Inca subjects”. Significantly Incaism has become a theme held by resistance movements since the colonial period‚ as well as cultural
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Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel in American history‚ and he remains a storm center of dispute("Fires of Jubilee" author Stephen B. Oates). Nat Turner’s slave revolt may have not been the greatest way to solve the problem of slavery‚ but it did open many people’s eyes. Slavery was an accepted practice in society but it was not a humane or kind thing. The cruel and unjust treatment by the slave masters in the 1800’s led to Nat Turner’s slave revolt‚ which in turn led
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and conformity. But‚ through the wave of social harmony came the shift towards the rebellion that brewed underneath the social norms. Events such as the birth of rock n’ roll and the Beat Movement shook the social structure that ruled American’s lives for so many years and fueled a movement of rebellion against conformity. In his article‚ The Fifties‚ author Alan Brinkley explains change provoked the social rebellion experienced
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The Bacon’s Rebellion was an uprising in Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1676 led by 29 year old planter Nathaniel Bacon. The uprising was caused by thousand of Virginians gathering all with the same resentment against the governor William Berkeley. Many were upset because of Berkeley’s kind policies toward the American Indians. The Bacon’s Rebellion was a major turning point for America in many ways one being forced removal of Berkeley from office. Governor William Berkeley favored the Indians even though
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was the Tupac Amaru rebellion a response to the Bourbon Reforms enacted on the Spanish Colonies? Explain Tupac rebellion was pressured to put up a fight because they were being treated unfair and tax was very high. The Spanish Empire started the Bourbon because they wanted to tax the Native peasants and resources that were harvest. The fighting between the Rebellion groups and Spanish colonies remain constant for couple of years. However it ended badly for Tupac rebellion groups and the execution
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addition‚ the colonies remained faithful to their kings‚ which shows that not everyone is equal. If not everyone is equal‚ then it is impossible to describe a society as democratic. As seen in the Mayflower Compact‚ the king is the one who ultimately has control over the colonists. “ We‚ whose names are underwritten‚ the Loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James” (Document A). The word subject implies subordinate. In a democratic society‚ the majority rules. Therefore‚ one person cannot determine
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