ASince thus redeemer has given to our most illustrious King and Queen, and their famous kingdoms, this victory in so high a matter.@ AThe lands thereof are high, and in it are very many ranges of hills, and most beautiful in a thousand shapes, and all accessible, full of trees of thousand kinds, so lofty that they seem to reach the sky. ... They are men of subtle wit, who navigate all those seas, and who give a marvelously good account of everything... ... Columbus had one other big idea that he wrote about to the King and Queen and Spain. ... He expressed this to the King and Queen. ... W...

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Also he was a member of the Senate and followed all debates relating to Belgium's trade and industry. ... The King entrusted Henry Stanley to establish A.I.A. posts in the Congo. ... He founded stations all along the river at Vivi, Isangila, Manyanga, Ntamo, and Mswata above Stanleypool. ... Boulger, an enthusiast of the King's policies wrote in his book The Congo State'; "owing to the initiative of King Leopold, a settled form of government existed in the Congo Basin before the Berlin Conference, which merely gave its official recognition to what ...

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For decades, King George III and the British parliament had attempted to smother the growth of the American colonies. ... Irritated at their success and ability to thrive without England's assistance, King George III placed heavy taxes on the colonists, increasing their debt and causing further resentment. ... The British has invaded colonists' rights and disregarded all their needs, only to seek financial gain from the colonies' resources. All these statements made on King George III and the government of British is in fact valid and proven through their many actions and the...

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One case that seems to precedent the precepts of imperialistic conquest is King Leopold's journey to the Belgium Congo to stop the slave trades. As history soon would repeat itself the king used his army to coerce labor from Belgium's indigenous people to fuel his rubber fortune. ... King Leopold walked away with 1.2 billion from the rubber trade, making natural resources another driving mechanism in imperialism. ... Pseudo-scientists Francis Galton, Lyell, Knox, and Howinson all used biological sciences to justify the elimination of undesirable races. ... Lindqvist's "Extermina...

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The terms imperialism, nationalism and genocide all have different meanings and they are all correlated. ... King Leopold the II claimed the Congo basin of Africa as Belgian territory and assumed control of that region. ... King Leopold requested that his claim for the Congo region be recognized internationally. ... King Leopold reaped the benefits of his imperialistic claim of African land; other European nations decided they wanted the same opportunity to expand their territory and increase economic wealth. ... Imperialism, nationalism, and genocide are all correlated subjects. ...

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The Council advised the King and watched over all colonial activities. 23. ... He asked King George II for a colony south of Carolina where the poor could start over. ... The new colony was named Georgia, in honor of the king. ... England's royal colonies were governed by a governor appointed from the King. ... In most respects, he had a king's powers. 31. ...

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Unlike any other King before him, he had to rule his people with the notion that parliament always had a say in what went on. This idea had always been in force to the colonist until 1763 once King George took their power of being able to speak freely against the king in local governments by enacting things such as military rule in Boston Massachusetts. ... The following years presented a fight to gain power between Charles II and King James II. ... Once King George and Parliament enacted laws and taxes to the colonist, Americans began to feel that the King was limiting their freedom. ... Once...

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Even though they were all irritated by, and resistant to the colonial authorities in the 1750's, most of them saw no need to consider themselves separate from England, or to cooperate with each other in any way. ... He was trying to show the need for unity between the colonies, and for them all to the Albany Plan, which would have given America a central government. ... Many considered their fellow colonists as a worst alternative than the monarchy in England, as summed up by Father Mather Byles in Document D, in which he states his preference for a single tyrant, in King George, as oppos...

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Joint-Stock colonies were founded when a group of investors received a grant of land or charter from the King to establish a colony where the investors would divide the profits from the tobacco and other products extracted from the colony. ... Proprietary colonies were usually granted by the King to an individual to start a colony and the individual collected rent from the colonists. ... By the beginnings of the 18th century all the colonies had converted to Royal authority due primarily to mismanagement and or poor administration....

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. - that originally, all colonists were founded by the British, so were British citizens. The colonists who were fighting the British were actually rebels acting in disobedience and betraying the King of England. ... After all, his dad had taught him to be a good citizen, love the king, and respect authority. ... But he believed that the relationship between the king and colonies could and would be restored and that he was in a position of influence to help make that possible. ...

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They all want to gain power and prestige. ... Another benefit from imperialism was the spread of religion and language in Africa when Nzinga Mbemba was the King of Kongo. Mbemba wrote letters to the King of Portugal asking him to send missionaries and priests to teach his people Christianity and spread it throughout his kingdom. ...

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He demanded, "10 percent of all riches brought back by everyone, not just by himself. ... Even so Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand granted him all he asked and even gave him their blessings. ... He entreated the King and Queen to grant him the title "Don" and "Grand Admiral of the Ocean Sea and Viceroy and Perpetual Governor of all the islands," (Halsall). ... The old adage, "money is the root of all evil," applies to the conquest of Columbus in the Caribbean. ... " In his letter to the Queen and King of Spain, Columbus mentioned the word "gold&qu...

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"The parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain, and all her colonies. ... The King is openly cursed everything is ripe for rebellion. ... "[The British declared] that parliament can "of right make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever The latter is our choice." ... "Men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of Great Britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, COME, COME, WE SHALL BE FRIENDS AGAIN FOR ALL THIS No man was a warmer wisher for a [peaceful settlement] then myself I rejected the hardened...

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Main reasons were: poverty and the conflicts between King and the Church. King Henry the eight wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon, but the Protestant church refused to give its permission for him to do so. ... People saw all of these things happen and they also saw a solution. ... One of the people who was looking for the solution to all of this inferno was Richard Hakluyt. ... First of all people would get more opportunities and might get back on their feet. 2. ...

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The regions of Colonial America all had distinctive cultures and economies that completely differed from the others. ... Since all three regions were comprised of colonists from the same country, it is obvious that there should be aspects that the regions have in common. ... The Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, asked the King of England to help out. ... There was also a governor of the region who was designated by the King of England. ... Both the Chesapeake and the Southern colonies had a similar government in which a governor and a council were appointed by the King of England, and an...

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It is this one logic that makes all the gears revolve and govern this massive engine. ... It all started back in England and in 1578 Humphrey Gilbert, some guy, received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to colonize the "heathen and barbarous lands" in the New World which other European nations had not yet claimed. ... The King, Charles I, wanted the success and the wealth that the settlers had so he sent troops over to basically control everything and make a profit off the businesses. The King also made towns like Jamestown British colonies which were then taxed by England. ...

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In the late 1700s, eight out of thirteen colonies had King-appointed royal governors. ... All of the selected officials had a difficult time getting along with the legislatures because they represented the hovering transatlantic authority of England. ... Colonials could practice the freedoms of representative government, assembly, press, and speech which were all greatly treasured. ...

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In Africa, European imperialists ruled, killed, enslaved, and traded millions of native Africans like merchandise while also robbing all the approachable natural resources. ... With better-developed technology, Europeans started to believe that they enjoyed superiority in all aspects, including economics, culture and race. ... With his documentary report on the Congo Free State, which was privately controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium, we could observe the unreliability of those justifications. ... He counted how the major natural resources in Congo, the rubber, was brought to Belgium aft...

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Several new colonists, of all ethnicities and backgrounds, were immigrating to this newfound land. Because of the great diversity that was being brought in, it seemed impossible for all the colonies to become as one. ... He received a large grant of money from the king through inheritance, and left for America to establish an asylum for the Quakers in 1681. ... All residents were guaranteed freedom of worship, and no restrictions were placed on immigration. ... In conclusion, religion played a main role in the American colonies in unifying all the different people that had immigrated there. ...

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Andrews wrote," that the empire was not a single state made up of a mother country and her dependencies, but rather a group of states equal in status, with coordinate legislatures and a common king." ... England had it all: "an element of monarchy, the king, an element of aristocracy, the House of Lords, and an element of democracy, the House of Commons."... Compromises were reached concerning the extent of the King's power and also the relationship between church and state (Church of England). ... All of these conditions existed in eighteenth century England and the combined to create th...

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Imperialism, in definition, is the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region in order to increase its own wealth and power. Imperialism during the period following the Age of Exploration, when European countries acquired colonies to support m...

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Prior to the increase of settlements in North America, England had established several Navigation Acts, these directly affected all foreign and domestic trade. ... This resulted in the passing of the Hat Act, which banned all colonial hat makers from exporting their products to other colonies or Europe. ... As England began her economic sanctions of the American colonies, she also began appointing political leaders, and by the middle of the 1700's all but five of the colonies were governed by a royal governor. ... This caused uproar within the clergy, who appealed to the king, who in turn...

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All his power cannot prevent his darkness from being unleashed at the Inner Station. ... That was the reflection that made you creepy all over." ... "All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz," Marlow states emphatically. ... Kurtz exemplifies the unraveling of the duplicitous, excessive civilizing imperialism that King Leopold employed in ruling the Congo from Belgium. ... Kurtz and imperialism itself all have hearts equally dark in Conrad's world. ...

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For the other Latin American countries Spain's influence and presence was not welcomed at all. ... In the Requerimiento authored and applied in 1514 by King Charles I of Spain, it was written if the Indians did not comply to the demands placed upon them that " we will enter your land against you with force and make war in every place you to the Yoke and authority of the Church and Their Highnesses. ... Moreover, in the Carribbean there was a complete condemnation to all things Spanish all together. ... With the gains in Independence came the choice of staying loyal to the Crown or beco...

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They claimed all the land for Spain and the settlement were very soon established. Individual settlers for Spain received large areas of land and the right to control all of the labor of those who lived on the land. ... All the native people mined silver in the mountians, and often at the expense of thier own lives. ... The Portugese could now control all sea trade in the entire region. ... In 1682, an expedition was lead on the Mississippi all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico, with the French claiming all of land that was by the river for King Louis XIV, naming it Louisiana. ...

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