flow of silver from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century affected all areas involved in the trade‚ both socially and economically. It influenced the world economy and changed the customary life in Ming China. The global trade of silver shaped the economies in all regions involved. (Docs. 2‚ 4‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8) Although the author of Doc. 2 believed that the flow of silver currency out of Spain ruined their economy‚ it is evident in Docs. 7 and 8 that they were mining much silver and could
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Americans were not always free and independent. The colonists from Great Britain who settled America were ruled for many years by the British crown. After some time ‚ the colonists wanted independence. But‚ the English had many reasons to feel a wave of rebellion. The British placed unreasonable taxes on the colonists and to add on‚ unfair treatment was also placed on to the colonists by the British. To start off‚ a statement commonly argued was “No taxation without representation.” This basically
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welcoming spirit and the general culture of the country reflected in myself and my family.” Hannah Harvey People move around the world for different reasons and they vary from love to war. These motive are put in three categories social political and economical and this movement can change the world in a big way. As one may know the African slaves came over to the New World forced and unpaid‚ But they did get the new world’s economy jump started‚ and when the Jewish people were released from the camps
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History‚ a record of past events and developments‚ which are usually in chronological order that define who and what we are today. Now days‚ history is changing so rapidly and life seems to be stuck in fast forward. Usually when people think of the word history‚ they often think of big events‚ when truly everything you do is making up history. Even reading this paper is history in the making. And as a human it is our duty to know and analyze our past to make sure repetition of our downfalls doesn’t
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step. Confirming this state of mind is Mao’s quote about continuous revolutions‚ “Our revolutions come one after another.” Mao also believed‚ like Stalin before him‚ that it was imperative that China catch up technologically in the world as they were behind the world leaders in innovation. Using the
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anomaly to this day. Their unconventional war tactics and nomadic way of life defied all other empires that were in existence at the time. However‚ their strategies proved extremely successful‚ and they were able to establish the largest empire the world had ever seen in a mere 20 year span. The unification of Asia (excluding India) under the strict rule of the Mongols brought about a period of relative peace and of economic improvement. While there were some negative factors due to Mongol reign‚ such
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A document that would show a Japanese elementary school from the 19th century to compare it to the normal school in doc. 2 would help in comparison of the documents. Also a western style elementary school from the 19th century that could show the similarities and differences from the Japanese school would help. Education was affected by the west in many ways in Japan. Documents 2‚6 show this perfectly. This supports my thought that the West played a pivotal role in their development and modernization
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The Mongols conquered and controlled most of Asia during the early civilizations. Unfortunately‚ the manner in which they acquired this land was ruthless and barbaric. The Mongols started out as simple nomads grazing the pastures. They lived in steppes and had to learn to survive the harsh temperatures there. The different tribes often got into disputes over land for their animals and fought very often. This made the Mongols tough mentally and physically. The military was extremely organized
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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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