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Late Eighteenth Century Slave Trade
2,973 wordsFrom the 1520 s to the 1860 s an estimated 11 to 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly embarked on European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large number died before reaching the coast. About 9 to 10 million Africans survived the Atlantic crossing to be purchased by planters and traders in the New World, where they worked principally as slave laborers in plantation eco...
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One Of The Greatest Northwest Passage
853 wordsCaptain James Cook~ World's Greatest Explorer Captain James Cook, an English Navigator and explorer, discovered Austria and the Hawaiian Islands on three famous voyages through the south pacific. Cook became an explorer because of his love of adventure and curiosity about distant lands and their people. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England in the year 1728. Then in the year 1755, Cook joined the British Navy. As a member of the Navy, he became an expert surveyor and astronomer. He was privileged ...
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Life On Earth Origin Of Species
877 wordsBiology came of age on November 24, 1859, the day Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. His book presented the first convincing case for evolution and led the way in the emergence of biology from a bewildering chaos of facts into a cohesive science. In biology, evolution refers to all the changes that have transformed life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to the seemingly infinite diversity that characterizes it today. Darwin addressed the sweeping...
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Balboa A Spanish Conqueror And Explorer
788 wordsVasco Nuez de Balboa, a Spanish conqueror and explorer, was the first to see the coast of the Pacific Ocean. He saw the ocean in September of 1513, from the top of a mountain of what is now Panama. On September 29, 1523, Balboa claimed it and all its shores for Spain. His findings opened Spanish explorations and conquests along the western coast of South America began. The Spanish called the ocean the South Sea because it lay south of the isthmus of Panama. In 1520 a Portuguese explorer named Fe...
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Vera Cruz Aztec Empire
1,144 wordsCort's, Here or Cortez, Hernando (1485 - 1547), Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Aztec Empire of Mexico. Cort's was born in Medelln, Extremadura. He studied law at the University of Salamanca, but cut short his university career in 1501 and decided to try his fortune in the New World. He sailed for Santo Domingo in the spring of 1504. In 1511 he joined the Spanish soldier and administrator Diego Velzquez in the conquest of Cuba, and subsequently became alcalde (mayor) of Santiago de Cuba. I...
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Story Took Place Scarlet Pimpernel
1,084 wordsIn 1792, during the French Revolution, a figure named the Scarlet Pimpernel saved many aristocrats from the French. Using daring plots and disguises he escaped from the French and his archenemy, Chauvlin. The richest man in England, Sir Percy Blakenley was married to the most beautiful woman in France, Lady Marguerite Blakenley. Sir Percy was an important character in The Scarlet Pimpernel. The story took place in both England and France. It started in Paris, France at the scene of the guillotin...
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King Charles Trading Posts
1,061 wordsFerdinand Magellan was born in 1480, in a stone farm house in Portugal. His father's name was Dom Ruy Magellan, and his mother's name was Done Alda De Mesquite. His father was a Portuguese nobleman and owned a large amount of land. He was also a sheriff, an honorary position awarded for distinguished service to the crown. Ferdinand's brother was named Diago De Sousa, a name he took from his wealthy grandmother, his sister was named Isabel Magellan. His family seemed to care about each other and ...
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Beautiful Woman Ten Years
523 wordsHelen was the most beautiful woman in the entire Greek known world. She was the daughter of the god Zeus and of Leda, and wife of the King of Sparta. The hero Theseus, who hoped in time to marry her, abducted her in childhood but her brothers rescued her. Because Helen was courted by so many prominent heroes, Menelaus made all of them swear to abide by Helen's choice of a husband, and to defend that husband's rights should anyone attempt to take Helen away by force. Helen's beauty was the direct...
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Christopher Columbus Queen Isabella
1,871 wordsIn 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Thats the one date everyone remembers, the date in virtually every school childs history textbook. But, they leave out pretty much everything about Columbus and his exploration of the New World. Its the part many people have yet to learn about. For years, Columbus has been presented to us as a hero. In 1934, President Roosevelt even gave Columbus his own holiday. To this day, we celebrate his discovery of America. What is found in history textbooks now, ha...
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Joseph Banks Suggested Aboard The Endevour Sailed
343 wordsIn June of 1769, aboard the Endevour, Captain James Cook completed his scientific assignment to observe a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun from Tahiti in the South Pacific. Afterwards, Cook and his crew headed westward; their secret mission was to find the undiscovered southern land, Terra Australias Incognita. Many geographers believed it had to exist to counterbalance the northern continents. They were ordered to travel as far south as the fortieth parallel in their searc...
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King And Queen Christopher Columbus
1,312 wordsCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS It is thought by many that Christopher Columbus was a skilled sailor on a mission of greed. Many think that he in fact did it all for the money, honor and the status that comes with an explorer, but this is not the case entirely. Columbus was an adventurer and was enthused by the thrill of the quest of the unknown. Columbus had a firm religious faith and a scientific curiosity, a zest for life, the felling for beauty and the striving for novelty that we associate with the ad...
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20 Th 1506 Died In Valladolid Columbus
762 wordsChristopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy on August 25 th 1451, and he died in Valladolid Spain on May 20 th 1506. His life is filled with mystery and controversy. Even though there has been controversy about his birth date and this birthplace, the historians have narrowed it down to this date and place. His childhood is another mystery. It is said that Columbus was the oldest of five children to poor wool weavers. His son has stated that Columbus had attended the University of Pavia; Columb...
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Sir Francis Drake Spanish Armada
1,715 wordsSir Francis Drake Francis Drake was an experienced and daring seafarer. Among many adventures, the famous voyage, his successful circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 ensured that he would be one of the best remembered figures of Tudor England. In his own lifetime, he was thought of with mixed feelings, both at home and abroad. Some English people regarded him as a hero, but he was distrusted by others, who saw him as having risen above his station. Although he was feared and hated...
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East Indies South America
427 wordsMagellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Magellan was born Fernao de Magalhaes to a noble Portuguese family; later the Spanish knew him as Fernando de Magallanes. He served as a court page in his youth and 1505 he sailed with a fleet carrying the first Portuguese viceroy to India. He then served with the fleet in the exploration of the East Indies. Twice wounded in battle, he took part in expeditions that captured the kingdom of Malacca in Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. He explored the...
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Daughter Of Zeus Ten Year
665 wordsHelen-A Ten Year War What is mythology? According to James Harvey Stout, it is an organized collection of stories by which we explain our beliefs in history. Myths usually confront major issues such as the origin of humanity and its traditions. It is the way in which the natural and human worlds function on a universal level. Other myth narrate the deities daily activities their love affairs and pleasures, their jealousies and rages, their ambitions and schemes, and their quarrels and battles. H...
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Juan Ponce De Leon Puerto Rico
769 wordsJuan Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De Leon was born 1474 in Terms de San Campos, Spain. He served as a page for a powerful lord. Schooled in warfare from an early age, he took part in many campaigns waged by the Spaniards to expel the Moors. In 1493, at the age of 19, he volunteered to accompany Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. They sailed through the island chain of the Lesser Antilles. Ponce spent the next few years as a soldier and distinguished himself for bravery. He also acted as...
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Mahatma Gandhi Karamchand Gandhi
1,996 wordsThe future generations will scarcely believe that such a man in flesh and blood, had tread this earth. Said Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi's real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in 1869 at Porbandar in the state of Gujarat in INDIA. His fathers name was Karamchand Gandhi and his mothers name was Putlibai. He was the youngest in the family of one sister and three brothers. His father belonged to the family of grocers but himself was a minister in the court of a local ruler. He wa...
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Margaret Fuller First Child
1,209 wordsMargaret Fuller: Bluestocking, Romantic, Revolutionary by: Ellen Wilson 1810 - 1850 Published by William E. Wilson Copyright 1977 Ryerson Ltd... , Toronto, 1977 Sarah Margaret Fuller lived an extremely detailed life. She experienced many difficult occurrences that would have made many think life too difficult. But, no matter how many events made her feel like a failure and never improved, Margaret still fought for what she wanted and never gave in to anything she thought was less than what she d...
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Dangerous Game Three Days
611 wordsThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is about the hunter and the hunted but later in the story it becomes ironic because it turns into a game were the hunter becomes the hunted. It turns into a chase of competition and of survival. Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney sailed in to the darkness of the of sea. Their purpose was to hunt, they called it the " greatest sport" . They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt vicious animals such as Jaguars, and tigers. The...
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King And Queen Kublai Khan
1,376 wordsOver many centuries countless people have traveled unmapped territories for a number of reasons. Some are looking for treasure, some for fame, and some just to map out and claim new lands for their kings and queens. These are just a few reasons among many. Some of the best known explorers are Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Meriwether Lewis, William Clarke (Lewis and Clarke). Marco Polo (1254 1323? ) was born into to a family of merchants from Venice, Italy who did a great deal of travelin...
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