The warm weather all year around helps for more crops to grow, since its warm things like lemons and oranges and any citrus fruit that grows on the islands help increase the flavor of them and have more of a use to use on the islands. ... When the Spanish came to the islands after Columbus they introduced coconut, chick-peas, cilantro, eggplant, onions, and garlic to the islands. ... The native Indians had many food products before the Spanish and Europeans came over to explore the Islands. ... When the Spanish and French shared Roman Catholic, British shared Protestantism, The Irish shared C...

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As another example, Jesuits were big production empires with the help of slavery, they were the largest land holders in America, and the Spanish were the largest owner of slaves. ... " This created labor units in the slavery market, the Spanish colonial slavery market units were one healthy man equal to two or three sick/older men. ... African slaves were turned into commodities, from the certain jobs they are needed for and the European/Spanish desire in quality of slave units. ... It helped empires produce food and increase population, which in time helped empire production. In comparis...

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They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due the belief that they were innocent children of God. ...

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With out African influences, American music would all be European and Spanish based with a small touch of Hawaiian and other near-by islands. ... "Pioneers such as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Mississippi Fred McDowell helped to create a unique and powerful sound that is still popular today." ... Some one who helped introduce this style of music was Stephen Foster. ... With the help of the African culturally influenced beats form drums, rhythms, and themes of songs a great and powerful style was born which was adopted by "Americans" and then called "American music". ...

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George Washington's belief was to lead Virginia into an expedition to challenge French claims at the Allegheny River Valley. This was accomplished in 1753. In 1754, Washington led Virginian forces against French at Fort Duquesne in the upper Ohio River Valley. Washington also builds Fort Necessity a...

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This connection was to the extent that when a runaway woman in Kingston3 was caught and punished, the only way her owners could get her to eat was to solicit her shipmate's help in talking to her. ... The planters tried to teach the enslaved populace their language but somehow this was an arduous task which led to the emergence of Creolese, this was a linguistic syncretism of African languages and the language of the planters, whether it was English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Citizenship of the Freed Slaves during and After the Reconstruction Slavery and the citizenship seem to be in contradiction of each other from top to bottom. Slavery is the state one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household whereas citizenship is the state of the status of a...

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