With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ......

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... Language has been used to pass knowledge from generation to generation, to express the variety of the customs and literature of our different territories. ... The Naka'ela in Maluku, Indonesia, reportedly decreased in number after moving down from the mountains to a coastal town on Seram Island. 3 Colonization and the introduction of a new language into the territory of a existent cultural group can also put at risk the traditional language, as with the Hawaiian people, who now form only about 20% of the total popu...

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More often than not, this reference would be used under the topics of art and literature by the Western world. ... Said, a Palestinian-American, knows full well of these repercussions and made many ground-breaking claims about just how powerful Western influence has been on these areas in his book. ... Continuing the cycle of Western-constructed realities of The Orient, Wharton really looked negatively upon Morocco and was punitively critical of the barren landscapes, the native infrastructure, people, and ˜their lack of motivation'. ... We have already established a foundation on ...

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