Shipbuilding

Travelling to the heart of Togo, one will find many villages lacking clean water. One will encounter children who spend half of their day walking for miles to and from a river, only to come back with buckets of unfiltered water, contaminated with disease. One will watch the people of these villages become infested with said disease, as it is the only water they drink. One will also discover villages struggling with thirst for two-fourths of the year while the wet season departs and the dry…

the capital of Havana and exposes travelers to the extraordinary culture and history of Cuba. Established in 1859, downtown Havana was initially a stopping point for galleons coming to the New World. By the 17th century, it had become the primary shipbuilding center with baroque and neoclassical styled buildings. The influence of Spaniards can be seen in the squares, where tourists strolling along the cobblestoned streets might recognize that the architectural design resembles that seen in…

Viking! Enter the Vikings. The period between 700 and 1050 A.D. is marked by their expeditions and raids around Europe, especially eastwards. Trouble around the Mediterranean has brought more trade to the north and Swedes start to make use of their shipbuilding skills. The fact that Vikings are free men as opposed to those who stay to farm the land and the slaves, probably makes it easy to recruit people to the ‘expeditions’ that are sometimes peaceful trade journeys, sometimes brutal raids…

Sailing technology unique to the Indian Ocean system included the lateen sail and a shipbuilding technique that involved piercing the planks, tying the planks together and caulking them in which allowed them to travel longer routes. It increased as a result of a decline in the silk road trade or any Land Routes.It was also safer for merchants…

Overview On November 11, 1889, Washington became the 42nd state of the United States. The state capital is Olympia and the current state governor is Jay Robert Inslee. There are approximately seven million people living in Washington. According to several sources, it is the 13th most populated state. The three largest cities are Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. Washington was named in honor of George Washington and is the only U.S. state named after a president. Historical Background Native…

instilled an anticipatory attitude towards war across Europe as each country became increasingly prepared for conflict. For instance, Germany practiced militarism by keeping a peacetime army of over two million soldiers and funding an ambitious shipbuilding program. Germany’s military endeavors made other European powers, such as Great Britain and Russia feel threatened and seek to protect themselves from Germany by building up their own armies and arsenals. As militarism spread through Europe,…

foster Streets in North End Boston. Revere supported the venture with income from his silversmith shop and his financial assistance from his hichborn cousins. After several years of producing iron products,he began making bolts and spikes for the shipbuilding industry, cannons and bells. The foundry proved to be a forerunner to what the most ambitious effort in his life, developing a mill for rolling copper. In 1800 at the age of sixty five , Paul Revere motivated by patriotism and profit…

Before the Black Death plagued Europe during the late Middle Ages, the continent was already facing the worst. The “little ice age” had created colder weather leading to failed harvests and malnourishment, ultimately leaving most of the population either dead or susceptible to disease. In addition to this, improvements in ship design, though profitable for merchants, invited pathogen-ridden vermin to infect all they crossed paths with. This, in accompaniment with a lack of public health and…

During colonial America, lying on the eastern side of the continent were the New England colonies in the north and the Chesapeake colonies in the south. New England colonies composed states such as MA, RI, and CT while Chesapeake colonies contain states like MD, VA and the Carolinas. With these two colonies separated, they share similarities as well as differences. Slavery, politics and religion are the most important key facts that have a common aspect among New England and Chesapeake colonies.…

owners to come up with enough finance to import more indentured servants. New England on the other hand did not have a thriving consistent cash flow economy like the Chesapeake. The majority of the economy for New England was fishing farming and shipbuilding intensive. The farming on the other hand, was done on a very small scale in comparison, however, there was still revenue coming in. Food was generally only provided for the small families of each farmer. Economic wealth was not a major…