...when the Europeans sailed the oceans in order to find new trade routes. As a result, the Europeans stumble upon the New World. They established colonies in the New World and conquer the Native Americans that were living there. The Europeans goal was to become the most powerful and richest country in Europe. The Age of Exploration had both negative effects and positive effects. Although there were negative effects on the Native Americans, there were more positive effects on the Europeans. The Age of Exploration was due to Europeans sailing west in order to find new trade routes. However, instead of finding new trade routes they found an unknown place. That unknown place was the New World or the Americas. European sailors such as Christopher Columbus...
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...demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange, between 1492 to 1750, on the Americas are similar to that of Europe, in terms of introduction of crops and the movement of native people, yet they differ when discussing the change in the population. A similarity between the environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange between Europe and the Americas, was the introduction of new crops and livestock. The new crops came from both Europe...
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...known as the African Slave Trade. Little did they know they would involuntarily be living a life of servitude and apprenticing. Although the action of slave trade had existed once before throughout Africa, it had never been this large of an epidemic in the Atlantic World - beginning in the 16th century, and effecting more people and places than expected. Colonizers who had discovered land in North and South America, and in the Caribbean Islands were in need for cheap labor. The founders of the land needed slaves to work in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton plantations, gold and silver mines, as well as domestic servants....
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... the Europeans relied on them as a source of food, transportation, and for agriculture. Because of this, Europeans were always coming into close contact with animals and this caused the Europeans to contract many diseases from animals. “Hence when we domesticated social animals such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us” (AOD p.70). This clearly shows how coming into contact with domesticated animals caused many Europeans to develop life-threatening diseases. While the contact with animals was the primary source of disease, large populations in Western Europe due to agriculture also introduced crowd diseases. Overtime however, Europeans became...
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...of this paper is to Describe how European global exploration, particularly the Portuguese and Spanish, from 1500-1700, changed the character of both old and new societies. In the fifteenth century, European global expansionism was the driving force that kept the English motivated to expand. Europeans set out on a cycle of overseas voyages that would lead to the organization of European trading posts and colonies in both the Americas and the East. Colonialism is defined as a structure in a colony with a specific linkage; meaning economic, political, cultural, and social ideologies. The colonies linked England to the United States. England, being the mother country, also had a very important role play. The mother country was responsible for providing money for supplies for voyages such as ships, food, soldiers, and weapons etc. Also, England was responsible for the processing and manufacturing of raw materials. Settlers of the colonies needed markets to sell their goods and labor. They also needed a source of labor for the production of raw materials. This new labor force was made up of Native Americans, indentured servants (white slaves who served terms of up to seven years as slaves), and Africans. Columbus and his crew stated that when they arrived in the Americas they found Africans already there. In 1502, the Spanish were the first Europeans to enslave Africans in the Americas. Yet the local population died from European diseases like smallpox and from overwork...
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...process. Belgium was one of these imperialistic countries and Joseph Conrad depicted the effects of their take over in his novel. Colonialism, as shown in Heart of Darkness, “Heritage,” and “An Image of Africa,” has drastic effects on individuals that force them to alter both their presence in and their view of the world. Heart of Darkness illustrated the effects of imperialism on two main characters: Marlow and Kurtz. Marlow’s experience and awareness of the struggles in...
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...Alicia A. Smith October 29, 2014 Eng.4705/Essay #2 Beauty Complex The word beauty has many negative connotations for African American women. Over the years African American women have been subjected, misrepresented and also dehumanized by the exemplification of beauty and identity. This pattern of internalizing the perception of beauty to coincide with European standards have caused many African American women in the process to alter their physical appearances and personify a culture that has disregarded the uniqueness of being “ black and beautiful”. The cultural aesthetics of being “black and beautiful” has been distorted in literature, movies and television shows to appease an acceptable standard of beauty that in reality is unrealistic....
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...Westernization and European Influences on Various Cultures Angela Lancaster AIU Online HUMA215-1205B-19 Abstract We are asked to analyze and interpret a quotation about the confrontation of Western civilization with other people whose values were often dramatically opposed to the West’s. We are asked to discuss what would the loss of centeredness of culture have meant for a given cultural group. To select from the non-western cultural groups and research the impact of Western or European cultures on the group chosen. Finally we are asked to give an opinion on how non-western culture was prior to the late nineteenth century and how did it change as a result of European expansion. There are several cultures that were affected by the westernization and the colonization of the Europeans. A few of these cultures are the Native Americans, Africans, Chinese, and Japanese. Each of these different cultures had drawn in different ideals, some good, and some bad. Asia did not have as many problems with westernization as the Native Americans and the Africans. The entire culture of the Native Americans and Africans were destroyed from European expansion and colonization, whereas the Chinese and Japanese retained much of their heritage by remaining out of touch with the western world. (Sayre, 2012) The Native Americans had a civilization that was basic and traditional, and it remained that way for several hundred if not thousands of years. They lived off of the land...
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...Gordon, Maya K. “Media Contributions to African American Girls Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, 1 Sept. 2008, pp. 245–256. Sage Journals, doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00433.x. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017. In this article, Maya Gordon explores how sexual objectification can hinder and influence girls’ beliefs about their appearance. She specifically focuses on young African American girls whose ideals have been affected by the media’s distortion of beauty. To study this, Gordon took a survey of 176 young African American girls to understand the correlations between media and their need to focus on their appearance. The measures used within this study...
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...There were many effects the European Exploration had on history. When the Spaniards went to the Americas they brought many diseases, which killed many Indians. This is one example of an effect the European Exploration had on history. Picture yourself as a Spaniard working for Columbus or Cortez and you are in the years 1492-1500.Traveling to the new world you dream about the untold riches there is to find and new land to claim. When you arrive you meet many people and your captain (Columbus or Cortez) say that they are going to call theses people Indians. When you show off your things to the Indians, you realize they have never seen any of the things you have because they stupidly cut their fingers on the blades of a sword. A light goes off in your captain’s head and they decide that the Indians make perfect slaves. When the Spaniards went to the New World they brought many different plants and animals. Some are cattle, goats, chickens, barley, coffee, and oats. They also brought many different diseases. Some diseases are chicken pox, influenza, scarlet fever, and smallpox. When some Spaniards left to return home to tell the good news to the king and queen, they left with more animals and plants. Some are alpacas, llamas, turkeys, beans, corn, pepper, and potatoes. The Spaniards that remained were trying to figure out a way to conquer the Indians land. After a while they started to realize that if they coughed or sneezed on any of the Indians, the Indians became sick and sometimes...
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...The Age of Exploration was when two worlds were brought together. European explorers were able to discover the New World for many different explanations. Their act produced great changes for both worlds the cause of the Age of Exploration were gold glory, and god. Throughout the year they establish a new world and in the new world there were positive and negative aspect of them. The negative aspect were slave trade, European disease, and racism. Alost h positive about the new world was navigation increased, expansion of wealth and power and exchanging of goods. There were many causes and effects from the Age of Exploration. In the years European began to build stronger, faster sailing ships and help increase their population and help others....
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...colonization of Latin America and Africa by the Europeans halted the development of independent political life, causing the colonies to become politically unstable an segregated, and although the colonizers did occasionally establish a European bureaucracy, ultimately the fragmentation of native politics caused mass destruction and death. The scramble for Africa, as explained by Strayer urged six different European countries to fight over which shall rule over the continent. The competition drove the Europeans rip apart each other and Africa. The bloody battles were explained by Edward D. Morel in The Black Man’s Burden, his response to Kipling’s poem, “In the process of imposing his political domain over the African, the white man has...
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...RUNNING HEAD: CULTURE AND PARENTING Culture and parenting Introduction Parenting is the first and likely most important mechanism through which culture is reproduced (Cauce, 2008). Every child is born into a certain circumstance and learns through interactions with the surroundings. Parents are generally the first and key people in a child’s life, so it should come as no surprise that parenting has influences on the development of children’s temperament, which later impacts their school performance. This article is going to explore how parenting varies among different ethnic groups including Asian Americans, African American, Latinos, and European Americans. More specifically, what factors should be included when considering the parenting characteristics of a unique ethnic group and what implications might they have for schooling today. Theories Two of the modern theories that are concerned with cultural influences on human development are Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. First, Vygotsky’s theory defined culture as the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a social group. His Sociocultural Theory focuses on how culture is transmitted to the next generation. According to Vygotsky, social interaction – in particular, cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society – is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking...
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...western and eastern coasts of Africa. One of the economic interests of the Portuguese after they had settled on the coasts of Africa was to dominate and control the trade in gold, which was an important natural resource in Africa. Later in the seventeenth century, the Dutch took control of a number of the Portuguese forts as well as much of the Portuguese trade across the Indian Ocean. The Origins of the Slave Trade Slavery was being practised in the world long before the colonisation of Africa by Europe. You would recall that in our study of the First Civilisations, we came across slaves. Before the Europeans came to Africa in the fifteenth century, most of the slaves that existed were prisoners of war, who mainly served as domestic servants or wageless workers for the local ruler. In the fifteenth century, however, slavery continued at a rather steady, regular and common level. African slaves were found working or being in the Middle East as domestic servants, while others were used in Europe as household helps or agricultural workers. The Portuguese, at the beginning, took...
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...at the impact that immigrants had and brought to the New World we see what cultures and food dishes they brought to our civilization. The Migration of Cultures By 1830 the United States consisted of 2.3 million out of 12.8 million were of African descent and upon them settling after being brought here from Africa they brought many traditions and impacted the culture today. When they came to the United States they brought scientific and technological systems from the West and Central Africa as well as many food dishes such as; gumbo and rice, millet, sorghum, watermelon and black-eyed peas. They also brought tradition with them regarding funerals, celebration festivals, arts, music, dugout canoes, the banjo and language which also had an effect on the European culture as well and this is known as Africanism (Nps.gov, n.d.). Africanism is directly related to African American and Creolization which asks the question when you stop and give to the American or European culture. They point out that the African culture has direct impact on Africa, African-American, Creolization, African-Jamaican and European cultures and when examine the roots trace back to Africa. However, there has been some controversial stating that African roots to America were long lost in slavery as some believe but state the only strong culture they have still impacted are Latin America and the Caribbean (Nps.gov, n.d.). Many have traced the routes and the trade...
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