Trader

One of the main reasons why Josiah Gregg took the Santa Fe Trail was for the benefit of his health. People believed travelling across the Plains could cure all sorts of ailments, most of which related to the lungs because the clearer air and fresher environment improved respiratory function. Gregg explains the other complaints that could be eased: “Most chronic diseases, particularly live complains, dyspepsia, and similar affections, are often radically cured; owing no doubt, to the…

illegal, caused china a loss in currency as they were required to pay for the illegal opium. China had a bimetallism system which used both silver and copper as equal valued currency. This system served no problem until British merchants and other traders insisted on being paid in silver. As silver was constantly being used to pay for the large amounts of opium, the exchange rate was affected causing an inflationary in currency. Soon the price of goods in copper increased as well as the taxes…

reason that this trade and commerce was so successful was because of the government and because of Suleyman the Magnificent. Suleyman the Magnificent passed kanuns to help protect traders from thieves using his soldiers. He also used his soldiers to protect ports from invaders or pirates, thus protecting merchants and traders from other countries. Because of all these actions that Suleyman the Magnificent took to protect trade and commerce, trade was extremely safe to carry out in the Ottoman…

The French? Monsters! The Indians? Just as Bad! What have they done for us? They stole our land, took our material, and took up to 20,000 British pounds. Now do you want that money back? Do you want that land back? Come tell your government to join us and unify so we can be stronger and get our property! You know what happens when we all don't work together? Look at what happened with Commander Washington. He went in the battle by himself and his men. 44 men and no cannons against 360…

The descendants of the conquered nyonyose (farmers) honor nature spirits that provide them with supernatural power to control the weather, disease, crop failure, and general well-being. These are the "invented spirits" that become important as the congregation faces a particular affliction and which decrease in influence as the problem is solved. These spirits are often represented by masks and figures that make them visible and concrete. The spirits themselves provide, through the diviner, the…

Individuals with a suppressed or undeveloped immune response have difficulty resisting the virus as it progresses into pneumonia or encephalitis (swelling of the brain). In the past Measles like other diseases hopped across the oceans with explores and traders. Native Americans and Pacific Islanders with no natural immunity were reduced by some estimates by 95%. During the 20th Century, virtually…

one of Haley. Different from most of the plantation owners, he was friendly to every slave in his field. Nevertheless, when Mr. Shelby faced the prospect of losing his land due to the massive debts, he decided to sell several slaves to the slave traders for the high profit. As a traditional southern gentleman, Arthur Shelby…

Stanley’s mission to retrieve Emin Pasha took so long because of the instructions and conditions given by his benefactor, Leopold II. Stanley had been placed on a contract so that he could not work for the British government, and Leopold II had promised the government in Paris that he would not ever hire him again. Leopold II ruled over the Congo and had been very interested in the Nile River before news of Emin Pasha had began circulating. Working with his own interests at the base of his plan…

Nowadays if you step into a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes you’ll see there food marketed as “non GMO” or “GMO free”. What does that even mean though? A GMO is a genetically modified organism. Scientists will alter the genes of a plant or animal with DNA from different a species to get desired traits, such as resistance to disease or tolerance of pesticides. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding GMOs over the last few years. Scientists have claimed that GMOs are creating problems for our…

settled in the area. Cushitic-speaking people from northern Africa settled in a region of East Africa, which is the region that is now considered Kenya, around 2000 BC. Due to Kenya’s proximity to the Arabian Peninsula, by the first century AD, Arabian traders frequented the Kenyan coast, eventually establishing Arab and Persian colonies. In addition to the Arabs and Persians, during the first century AD, the Bantu and Nilotic people also moved into this specific East African region, settling…