... the Versailles Treaty and in 1869 the great French engineer Lesseps built the Suez canal as a money making scheme for France to grant passage for traders interested in an easier route to the east. However, such a project takes funding, so the French owners of the canal sold pieces off as stock. ... Nile. The British also annexed South Africa in 1877. Once again, the motivation behind this was the fear of losing India to another country. Capetown was an essential stop on the route to India. The British didn't fear losing South Africa--there was nothing there except Boers and Zulus. Nothi...

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... the other side of the Sahara were many great cultures that were isolated from the rest of the world. Henry wanted to find a water route to India. The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. A ship could carry more goods to and from India than the largest caravans, but Europeans could only guess that sailors could circumnavigate, or go around, Africa. Prince Henry helped unlock ... the secrets of Africa. Henry set up a school for sailors to learn the secrets of the ocean. He paid for many sailing expeditions ... many people believed the world was flat. He knew that Afr...

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... looked at by all powers of the world. Its location was favored by all of them. Russia wanted passage across the Black Sea so they waged war against the Ottoman Empire to take it over. The European's nationalism was a motive to take control of any land they wanted. They wanted to show that they were the best and they can do whatever they want ... to do. The colonized lands tried to fight the Europeans away but they were taken over. Their economic life turned out ... imperialism. Persia lacked the capital to develop its own resources. To raise money, the Persian ruler granted concessions...

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... and the French colonies Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), Martinique, and Guadeloupe (1660s-1680s), most laborers on the plantations were young European males who agreed to work for three to five years in return for free oceanic passage and food and housing in the Americas. These workers were called indentured laborers. By the later 17th and early 18th centuries, tobacco, sugar, indigo (used ... vessels. Trade cargoes organized in Europe cost several millions of dollars in today's money, and the average value of outward cargoes was greater than most overseas trades. Cargoes typically ...

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... world. All civilizations have attempted to change their body in order to fulfill their cultures ideas of beauty, religious, rites of passage, or social obligations. The modification and adornments of the body can take many forms. It can range from body painting to tattooing to body piercing. Currently in our ... society among young people this seen as a trend, but a large part of our society feels this is form of mutilation. However, these trends are not new to ... nose. It was popular in Ancient Mexico and in India. Today in India and in Pakistan too, women still continue to wear nose p...

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... trade on the African Coast, new battles of conquest began in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus mistakenly landed in America in his search for India. His mistake opened a new world of discovery and conquest for the Europeans and a world of devastation for the native Americans and Africans. Spain ... created an African Diaspora in the forced migration of some 12 million people from many diverse societies and cultures in west and west central Africa to European colonies in the Caribbean Islands, in Central and South America, and in North America. About 5% of slaves were sold into the English...

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