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23 Cards in this Set
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What is a barter system in simple words?
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In order to get what you want you must give those around you what they want
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What is money really?
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An exchange of value
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Give an example of commodity money in US before 1971
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Gold
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How can you calculate how long it will take for your money to double?
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-Use the rule of 72
Simply divide 72 by the percentage of interest you earn on your saving |
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-What are the 13 principles of Prosperity?
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1. God is the Author of prosperity
2.Faith begins with self-interest 3.Agency implies stewardship 4.Perspective determines action 5.People Are assets 6.Human life Value is the Source and creator of all property value 7.Dollars follow values 8.Exchange creates wealth 9.Profits is the tool of validation 10.Productivity is the Standard 11.Force Destroys freedom and prosperity 12.Collective action has unique moral authority 13.Personal liberty requires private property |
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Year US invaded Haiti following a black-mulatto friction
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1915 until.....1934
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Papa Doc sizes power in Haiti in what year?
Baby Doc succeeded Papa Doc in what year? |
-1956
-1971 |
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Baby Doc Fled to France in what year?
First year Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President? |
-1986
-1990 |
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Year that Egypt comes under Roman Rule and that Queen Cleopatra commited suicide after Octavian army defeats her forces
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31 BC
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-Arab conquest of Egypt
- Egypt oldest, largest Islamist organisation? |
-642 AD
-Muslim Brotherhood |
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Who discovered Haiti and in what year?
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Christopher Colombus in 1492
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In what year Haiti became the world first black republic?
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1804 –Haiti became independent from France
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Last king of Scotland is about what?
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It’s about the General Idi Amin, a dictator who ruled in Uganda 1971-1979
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Bloods diamonds
What is it about? |
Films starring Leonardo Di Capri and Desmond Huju
They are called Blood diamonds because the diamonds were sold to buy weapons Diamonds sold by the RUF (revolutionary united front) a rebel army in Sierra Leone, to finance the conflicts (to buy weapons) |
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Les 3 générales de la révolution en Haïti après Toussaint L’Ouverture
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Henri Christophe Alexandre Pétion |
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Haiti is in poverty because of mainly 2 things
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Dictatorship and economic censorship
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Some civil wars are categorized as revolutions when...
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Major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict
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Feuille de soie c’est excellent pour conserver le
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…fromage
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Name 3 types of civil war
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-Revolutions
-Religious conflicts -coup d’état |
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Carnations flowers also mean
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Flower of love
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Name 2 black man who were wrongly convicted for crimes they didn’t commit?
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Darryl Hunt
Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter |
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Wade in the water, what is it?
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Song to warn escaping slaves and told them to abandon their path
And move into the water to throw chasing dogs off their scents |
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Slavery ended after what and in what year?
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After Abraham Lincoln put forth his famous "Emancipation Proclamation" order. This proclamation effectively gave freedom to all of the African-American slaves. It went into effect on January 1, 1863.
La proclamation d'émancipation |
