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North, Latin American has allowed itself to be misled and has misused states funds for capital gain instead of investing in their own country’s transportation, education, and health care leading to a lower-income in most of its population. Latin America has allowed other countries to come in and use/run it’s natural resources and then turn around and make it cost too much for the people to use. Latin American governments poorly manage their natural resources, and have allowed companies from…

In the United States of America, people, especially in the world of politics, are often asked to define who is exactly is an “American”. On the surface, the answer seems rather obvious; an American is a person who is a native or citizen of the United States of America (Oxford Dictionary). However, 239 years ago, the United States of America became it’s own independent country. Since the formation of the original 13 colonies, men, women, and their families have fled to the USA to escape the…

Upon the edge of revolution, a country tottered, waiting for the final push. England had pressed upon a tired and loose colonial aggregate, and though these pressures were sometimes justified, they brought together a quite recently bickering populace with contempt for taxation and other misgivings. From the northmost colony of Maine to the buffer colony Georgia, all knew that contentions were stewing. However, though insurrection was on the mind of each colonist, this concept lie slanted in many…

Dendi, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, is a married mother of two, said that she’s been living in the United States for twenty-five years. Mexico has an abundance of violence and poverty, so her family moved here for better economic opportunities. She said that living here is a better way of living, especially when you are raising children. The five most important values of the Mexican culture are the love and respect for the family, especially the elders, the language, food, traditional music,…

Decades after the prophet Muhammad’s death in 632 c.e., Islam spread rapidly across North Africa, and soon expanded to Europe. The Reconquista was a series of the complexing struggle of territory between Muslim Moors and Christian Asturias, continuing for 780 years because of the desire for land and profit. In 711 an invading Muslim army crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into Iberia and by 718 had conquered most of the peninsula. The significance of the Reconquista is the reference to the defeat…

of years since the prevail of human civilizations, no matter in eastern or western countries, citizens were and are always trying to pursue a more democratic society. Since then, regional conflicts and battles had been raised in European and North America in the past two centuries, millions of people got injured or dead during the war time. However, civil disobedience, as one special form of social revolution, doesn’t involve violence and casualties but represents human rights and wills. The…

In the beginning , America “ New World “ has been just a group of British colonizers . It was populated by the Native Americans , and then came the Puritans to colonize it , followed by the first settlers : John Smith and William Bradford . In the late – seventeenth – century , The Enlightenment era , or “the age of reason “, was extended over Europe . Writers such as John Locke dares to defy the old system . Therefore , Locke’s thoughts and concepts inspire others like Thomas Jefferson , who…

Christopher Columbus, a great Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer of all time was born in 31st October 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Columbus discovered America for the first time in 15th century, which had excelled the importance of all the other events that had ever occurred. He started navigation at the age of fourteen and he had made four voyages to America through the Atlantic. He had laid three ships named the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta. Coming in contact with Mendoza, a man with…

judiciousness and curiosity were evident, however the longing for mass change resulted for Europe could recognize the New World just by forcing its power over it. Did Columbus find the New World? Deak says no. The landmasses of North and South America had been populated…

The kingdom of Benin entered into a trading relationship with the Portuguese which facilitated the Portuguese to buy pepper, cloth, and slaves from Benin. The Portuguese then exported the slaves, pepper, and cloth to European countries and in the Americas. However, the selling of slaves to Portuguese came to an end in the 1550’s because the kingdom of Benin was in a state of war to colonize other African territories. So, in order to acquire the other territories, they needed more army force due…