... is the music of Puerto Rico. Others talk of its roots in African rhythms, Spanish lyrics, Cuban street bands, Caribbean song and dance styles and Latin American jazz. The roots of Salsa take us back to Cuba. Cuba was the home of diverse styles like son and guajira, and the African rhythms ... of rumba. Salsa is probably the term most often heard in connection with Latin music, and oddly enough it is one that came into use in New York. Salsa emerged in the 1960's in New York, arising mainly from ... etc.), mixed sounds and dances of their countries and added some new elements, creating a...

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... France to their ideas of the exploration of America. Had each one developed similar ideas, then these three distinct civilizations would be blended together into one society today. Before the Americas, these three nations existed with similar race, social, and political structures. As they dispersed to the new world, each formed Latin, Central, and North America, with their own individual qualities. Child labors ... lead to the colonization of America for England. A line of rulers spanning a time of about seventy five years lead England through a chain of events that left the nation ......

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... with a series of celebrations and protests regarding this man who is said to have discovered America. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He received very little formal schooling, but taught himself Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin. He never learned to read or write Italian. As a teenager he took particular interest in ... or jailed. But Columbus stood by his beliefs, and proved the beliefs of the time he lived in wrong. For this he is acclaimed. America might not even have Columbus Day if Columbus was not Italian. It was the large Italian population in New York City that bought ab...

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... to mine and thus increase the wealth of Spain. The King heard this and then used religion as reason to conquer the people of the America's. The America's opened new routes of trade and if Spain had more territory then it could mine more and make more silver and gold. During the expansion ... mine gold, silver, and collect such things as spices all for the profit of Europeans. The development of mines in America allowed for new system of trade. Sea routes to the America's allowed for raw materials to enter a country and then be sold as manufactured goods back to the same forum that sent ...

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... to mine and thus increase the wealth of Spain. The King heard this and then used religion as reason to conquer the people of the America's. The America's opened new routes of trade and if Spain had more territory then it could mine more and make more silver and gold. During the expansion ... mine gold, silver, and collect such things as spices all for the profit of Europeans. The development of mines in America allowed for new system of trade. Sea routes to the America's allowed for raw materials to enter a country and then be sold as manufactured goods back to the same forum that sent ...

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... 1800, European traders shipped about ten million Africans to the New World. Most went to the West Indies or Latin American colonies. About five percent went to the colonies in America. Ships carrying goods such as rum and fish left New England for the west coast of Africa. There they ... African. Vassa stated, "The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole scene of horror almost inconceiveable." (Blacks in America 1619-1790, p.35) The Africans brought with them a knowledge of agriculture. There were also many skilled craftsmen such as wood-carvers, weavers, po...

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... each other's existence. During his four voyages westward--between 1492 and 1504--Columbus explored what are now the West Indies and the coasts of Central and South America. Columbus was the eldest son of Domenico Colombo, a wool-worker and small-scale merchant, and his wife, Susanna Fontanarossa; he had two younger brothers, ... Bartholomew and Diego. He received little formal education and was a largely self-taught man, later learning to read Latin and write Castilian. He was born to a family of wool weavers. At the age of 14 he went to the sea. He visited a lot of ... to the East Ind...

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... her intending for her to be trained as an attendant for his wife. She was given her name by John and his wife Susanna after the ship she journeyed to America on, The Phillis. Soon after her arrival the Wheatley's discovered her writing on the wall with chalk. Instead of reprimanding her for this, as many white owners would have done ... , they began to teach her to read and write. She was a very bright child who was reading passages from the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature only sixteen months after her arrival. The Wheatley's daughte...

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... Castro. Fidel Castro led a rebel army to victory in 1959. He had an iron rule as he has held the country together since then. Cuba's Communist revolution was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic recession in 1990. The US put an embargo on Cuba so that we ... ...

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