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    accomplish these terrifying ambitions‚ Bartolomeu Dias rounded the tip of the “dark continent” south of Europe in 1488 opening a direct route beyond Africa through the Cape of Good Hope. This fueled interest in finding quicker routes starting with Vasco De Gama who was the first to reach India traveling the long passage around the coast. Along the shoreline in places such as Madeira‚ Sao Tome and Principe‚ the Portuguese launched an economically sound foundation of sugarcane plantations and gold trading

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    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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    conquer all of the trade routes but to force the merchants to fortified their trade sites and pay duties at the sites. By the mid-sixteenth century‚ the Portuguese had more than fifty trading posts in West Africa and East Asia. On the lands of Vasco da Gama is where the Portuguese started trading slaves in West Africa. The slave trade was of the more important trade systems. The Indian Ocean was one of the oceans that slaves were shipped from; it was also a part of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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    WHAT MOTIVATED THE WEST’S INTEREST IN ASIA AND WHAT IMPACT DID THAT EVENTUALLY HAVE? (1979 WORDS) Missionaries in Asia and Their Impact on Education Religion was one key reason which attracted the Westerners into Asia. Because Christianity was the dominant religion in Western countries‚ the dispatching of missionaries into Asia was a common sight. Because they came in masses and moved conspicuously‚ they left rather astounding impacts on the host countries - educational impacts in particular

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    pimiento‚ basil‚ oregano‚ tarragon‚ oil and red bell peppers. Portugal is a semi-presidential constitutional republic where the President is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Europe’s longest bridge is called Ponte Vasco da Gam created by Armando Rito crossing the Tagus River north of Lisbon. Ponte Vasco da Gam carries six road lanes at the total length of 7.671 mi and a height of 509 ft. Armando Rito construction started in February of the year in 1995 ending then opened on March 29th of 1998. Portugal legalized

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    Jasmine Weber Renaissance ▪ New golden age/"rebirth" ▪ Began in Italy ▪ Georgio Vasari coined the term "renaissance" ▪ Beginnings of individualism‚ personal recognition and less glory for God ▪ Printing press allowed the movement to spread ▪ At the time‚ italy was under the control of the HRE ▪ Urban underclass: popolo minuto "the people" ▪ Wealthy class: popolo grosso ▪ Ciompi Revolt: Florentine revolt of the popolo minuto. They gained control for a short period of time. ▪

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    ones’ own economy and the desire for power attained through size of ones’ empire. However‚ the three previous listed reasons were still second to the ottomans fear of the Portuguese intrusion of the Indian trade routes initiated by the conquests of Vasco de

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    ABSTRACT The word retail has a very small meaning ‚ it means ‘to cut or to break the bulk’‚ however the term Retail Management is not a small concept ‚ it has a very broad meaning and a wide framework. When we say that Retailing is dynamic ‚ it simply means that is progressive in nature ‚ it keeps on changing itself with the emerging trends. There are various elements that are working as the forces for retail dynamics. One such force is Rural retail. The retail business in India accounts for

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    emendata dalla direttiva 93/68/EEC. « „ͷًÛÙ·ÛÁ ·ıÙfi ·ÌÙ·ÔÍÒflÌÂÙ·È ÛÙÈÚ ··ÈÙfiÛÂÈÚ Ù˘Ì Ô‰Á„È˛Ì ÙÁÚ EıÒ˘·˙ÍfiÚ EÌ˘ÛÁÚ 89/336/EOK Í·È 73/23/EOK‚ ¸˘Ú ÔÈ Í·ÌÔÌÈÛÏÔfl ·ıÙÔfl ÛıÏÎÁÒ˛ËÁÍ·Ì ·¸ ÙÁÌ Ô‰Á„fl· 93/68/EOK. Este equipamento obedece às exigências das directivas 89/336/CEE e 73/23/CEE‚ na sua versão corrigida pela directiva 93/68/CEE. Este aparato satisface las exigencias de las Directivas 89/336/CEE y 73/23/CEE‚ modificadas por medio de la 93/68/CEE. Denna utrustning uppfyller kraven enligt

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    Before 1500 CE‚ there were not as many ways and routes that one could take to communicate with other places. As soon as new connections were made‚ trade and communications difficulty decreased. For example‚ the Indian Ocean trade routes gave Europe the ability to reach “hard-to-get” areas and even connected them with the new world which in turn increased trade happening between the two regions. Over all‚ after 1500 CE‚ there were more routes and ways to be able to trade and communicate effectively

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