Next I examine the development of, or lack of, civil society and the institutions which took place across the continent in the colonial era. ... In much of the British areas, the administration was sought by as cheap a means as possible, with only a small-scale educational regime in place for the purpose of sustaining sufficient clerical support by Africans. ... Development and Economics  The fact that a small number of Africans received education which culminated in joining the bureaucracies of the colonies, is part of the reason that there was no easy task for the post-colonial societies to...

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The colonies had transformed from mere outposts, and small settlements, to potential profitable lands, both rich in resources and citizens. ... Just when the American colonies were beginning to experience a small amount of freedom and independent operation, the English decided to raise taxation to help finance the cost of the war. ... With these objectives in mind he began placing multiple restrictions upon the colonies. ... Fifth, he passed the Stamp Act of 1765, forcing the colonists to purchase stamps or seals to affix to legal papers, newspapers or pamphlets, these stamps had to be purc...

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The inequality created by control of most of the land in some city-sates by small groups of wealthy aristocrats. ... Herodotus states that when the colonists reached the spring called Apollo's fountain the Libyan guides said to the Greeks "this is the place for you to settle in for here there is a hole in the sky."...

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When the cities and territories become wider and expanded, there was a close collaboration with the development of science & technology around the world, the USA's National Academy of Sciences happens to be developing a large effort to promote scientific swap and to help build and support the capacity of local governments in smaller cities in the developing world to address their own serious metropolitan challenges. ... During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Two major reasons colonialism took pl...

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By the end of the century, places like Chesapeake Bay were exporting almost 40 million tons (Kennedy). ... This failure to effectively have a broader and steadier empire, displays why The Netherlands had a smaller impact in the colonization of the Americas. ...

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Colonialism is a political system based on economic exploitation and domination; it puts the profit of the colonist country in the first place regardless of the profit of the region under colonial rule. ... The peasant farming means small-scale farmers, using family labor, cultivate a limited land area at a relatively low level of technology (Vercruijsse, 1988). ...

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"Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking. There is no big boss. Patterns are about belonging" (Stockton, 1995) 'Pattern thinking is 'Aboriginal way'; triangle thinking is 'Western way'. Patterns are about belonging. Nothing is separate from anything else. The land is not separate ...

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