Mikaela Duguil Period: 6 Chapter 1 Cornell notes 1. What was not an important goal of the early English explorers and colonists? It was not an important goal to build a new nation. 2. Discuss the factors that transformed the colonist and caused them to envision and creating an independent nation: common bonds‚ language‚ farmers‚ untouched by tyranny of royal authority‚ official religion and social hierarchy‚ individual freedom‚ and willingness to subjugate to others. 3. What factors divided the colonists
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Ptolemy introduces Geography. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew‚ in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator. (1406) John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher‚ and translator. His English version of the bible was published in 1408. The Bible he created‚ the first literal translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English‚ was more a work of his followers than him but tradition still tends to attribute it to Wycliffe
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What was God’s purpose in creating the world‚ creating us‚ and creating the space that the world exists in? There is no doubt that God created everything we see around us‚ and even the things we cannot see‚ he created them all. Colossians 1:16 says‚ "For everything‚ absolutely everything‚ above and below‚ visible and invisible...everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him." God also created human beings in his image‚ and sent us out into all the world making disciples of all nations
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Table of Contents Oceanographer...…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Cartographer...…………………………………………………………………………………….5 Sociologist………………………………………………………………………………………...7 Opinion Essay……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………...…11 Oceanographer Oceanography is one of many unique geological studies. It focuses on the depths of the ocean and the air above it. That includes everything from the studying of tropical storms to the studying
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There are many similarities and differences between Romania and America‚ especially when someone has lived in them both like I have. Every country has different customs‚ beliefs‚ and ways in which they live their everyday lives. Both cultures are very different from one another. I loved living in Romania and I also love living in America very much but I do prefer one to the other and I will explain why. Romanians are very known for being naturally hospitable people. They are always eager to make
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live. This “Old World” is the continents‚ which is now known as Africa‚ Europe‚ and Asia. People in the Old World had no idea about any other continents outside this “Old World.” However‚ some Europeans who were travelling found a new continent. Amerigo Vespucci then named it as the New World‚ which now is known as America. It makes a little bit clear why the Old World and the New World were separated for so long. First‚ it is because people in the Old World had no idea if there was something else outside
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America: land of the free‚ home of the brave. Named after Amerigo Vespucci‚ an Italian merchant and cartographer who explored large parts of what is now South America‚ this country historically always had an enormous attraction on immigrants. Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ your huddled masses yearning to breathe free‚ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these homeless‚ tempest- tost to me‚ I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This famous part of a poem written on a plaque on the inner
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Babbie indicated eight (8) criteria must be met by a discipline for it to be classified as a science. Identify and discuss this statement. “Science is best defined as a careful‚ disciplined‚ logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe‚ obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon [the] discovery of better evidence.” – James Randi (1987) Earl R. Babbie advocated that a discipline became a science when
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Name _____________________________ Date ________________ Period ____ American History Test 1 A Chapter 1 Exploration and Settlement‚ I. Matching: Match the following descriptions with their proper identities. (25 points) _____ 1. country that focused on developing the fur trade rather than stable settlements _____ 2. _____ 3. colony originally settled to be a safe haven for Catholics _____ 4. _____ 5. colony settled by Puritans to be “a light shining from atop a hill” _____ 6. _____
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Beginnings of America: • Nearly 12‚000-14‚000 years ago / 9000 BC migrations reached the southern tip of South America / 15th century AD = contact with Europeans -> brought with them diseases (smallpox) ended in: demographic catastrophe‚ weakened societies‚ aided Spanish/ Portuguese exploration America before Columbus: • Adaptation to surroundings = nomadic bands‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ agriculture -> created civilizations • Population: a lot more people
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