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    Key Explorers Chart Assignment (Classwork and Homework Grade) We will start in the Computer lab and you will complete on your own Due 4B on 2/10 and 4A 2/11 Set up a chart giving information on major explorers of the period. We will be able to use this chart as a study guide/reference as we continue to learn how Europe‚ Asia‚ Africa and the Americas changed. As a result of scientific/technological growth..AKA (Scientific Revolution)‚ and cross-cultural contacts: explorations‚ colonization and trade

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    Imagine you are living in the 1400s in Europe. You are an explorer traveling the vast seas looking for uncharted territory. Your goal is to find new trade routes‚ goods‚ and land. This was the goal of many European explorers. Up until this point‚ the Vikings had developed trade networks. Leif Eriksson‚ a son of a Viking‚ sailed from West Norway to Greenland when heavy winds blew his ship to the coast of North America. It was not until 300 years later‚ in the 1400s‚ when people became interested in

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    significant Portuguese voyages of exploration occurred a generation after the death of Henry the Navigator. In 1487‚ Bartolomeu Dias proves that there is a sea route at the southern tip of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope. Ten years later‚ Vasco da Gama demonstrates that this route leads to India. The motives for the explorations vary from proselytizing‚ gold‚ and land for colonization in the name of their monarchy‚ aristocrats‚ and church. These innovative explorations and voyages become a new

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    1. Lesther Kim Orcullo III-OLAN Lesther Kim Orcullo III-OLAN What do you mean by Age of Exploration? The Age of Exploration or Age of Discovery as it is sometimes called‚ officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners‚ new goods‚ and new trade routes. In addition‚ some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world. Whatever their reasons

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    dropped a padrão at the farthest spot he reached. A padrão is a seven foot limestone column that the Portuguese used to mark their discoveries (“Bartolomeu Dias”‚ World History‚ ABC-CLIO). Dias would later help design the ships that would allow Vasco de Gama to reach the goal of traveling to India using his faster and quicker route in 1498 (“Bartolomeu Dias”‚ Britannica). Achieving this goal enabled Portugal to trade more easily with India and would have positive benefits for the Portuguese economy

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    GOST quotes Extended metaphor: “Perhaps Ammu‚ Estha and she were the worst transgressors. But it wasn’t just them. They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers‚ uncles uncles‚ mothers mothers‚ cousins cousins‚ jam jam‚ and jelly jelly. Rahel and Estha live in a society with very rigid class lines

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    humans have been interested in expanding their territory or explore new places. It’s in our blood‚ in the stone-age cavemen tended to kill each other for the land‚ or later‚ there were the great explorers such as Marco Polo‚ Christopher Columbus or Vasco De Gamma who almost travel the world. But for us‚ everyday people‚ it could just mean a way to break the monotony of life and work. Travelling is a tool‚ and the purpose of this tool are different for different people. First and foremost‚ it’s definitely

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    PUBLIC PRIVATA PARTNERSHIPS AND REGULATORY STRATEGIES COURSE (MP525) LECTURER: DR. SHANMUGASUNDARAM SUBRAMANIAN WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT PPP of Vasco da Gama Bridge in Portugal Table of Contents Topic PPP of Vasco da Gama Bridge in Portugal Introduction Introduction to the Public Private Partnership concept Need for the Public Service To solve the congestion problem on Lisbon’s other bridge (25 de Abril Bridge)‚ and to join previously unconnected motorways between

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    Gustav Vassa Plot Summary Gustavus Vassas was born Olaudah Equiano in the African province called Essaka in 1745. He was the youngest son of seven surviving children and was very close to his mother. He describes a happy childhood during which he learned - as all his people did - to work hard. He is kidnapped and taken as a slave while still very young and soon finds that he has a talent for the sea and for trading. By being very frugal‚ he is able to save enough to buy his freedom after only

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    Western Europe established the first modern global networks‚ but it was not because their economies were much more advanced than others. Europe looked up to places like India‚ where Vasco Da Gama showed his country’s (Portugal) inferiority once he noticed how wealthy the Indian king was. Islamic Empires such as the Ottomans conquered Constantinople closing all trade routes from Europe to Asia‚ forcing Europe to alter their routes. Also‚ Europe did not compare to China‚ who had a great explorer that

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