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    America's population started to grow rapidly and it was a relatively young nation. Following the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, this historical event occurred in 1803 after an agreement was ratified between America and France. Actually, this region stretched from the river to the orifice of the Rocky Mountains though with yet to be determined original boundaries. The significance of the Louisiana Purchase is evident in the fact that it currently includes states like Colorado, Montana

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    With a UN imposed embargo of arm sales to the region, the Jewish government was able to secure an illicit transfer of weapons through Czechoslovakia, which Rogan and Shliam agree tipped the scales in their favor. When the Arab armies attempted similar transfers, they found that the British, French, and Americans were all too willing to abide by the UN embargo, and refused to supply them. In the wake of a retreating military presence in Britain and France, the Jewish state realized that one way of guaranteeing

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    French were ready to disestablish the absolute monarchy and overthrow the government, which is exactly what happened in the Reign of Terror. On July 14, 1789, at the storming of Bastille the people of France overthrew the government, ready to make their own (Doc 4). This illustrates how the people of France demanded a new form of government, one in which the people were just as important as the high authority and the nobles. Even games, such as cards, were being made into political statements about the

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    world. England was losing its colonies in India and in parts of Asia while France had lost their South East Asian colony of Indochina. This defeat was terrible for France and to further exasperate the problem for the nation, the new independence of Indochina persuaded other French colonies such as Tunisia and Morocco to also revolt against their colonial oppressor and gain independence. However the biggest loss to France was its loss of their colony in Algeria. Algeria had been a French colony for

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    was claiming. To the United States, the nationalization of the Canal was a convenient excuse for what was to come. To Britain and France, who felt that they owned the historical rights to the Suez Canal Company, the seizure of the canal meant that they would lose their largest colonial vestige in the region. Because there were no legal route for Britain and France to oppose Nasser’s nationalization, the Egyptian President could continue to manage the canal. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden was

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    Samuel de Champlain, who is referred to as the Father of New France, was born in the Brouage, Saintonge province, Western France. He was born to a protestant family around 1570. His father Anthoine de Champlain was a sea captain. The fact that his father worked in the high sea as a navigator, gave Samuel a strong desire to be a sailor and an explorer. This came when he was barely twenty years, under the guide of François Grave, he made his first voyage trip to the North America. Samuel Champlain

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    The Age of Exploration benefited Portugal and Spain more than France because they had the advantage of obtaining more political and economic power, made Christianity more dominant than Islam, helped enhance their national identity, communicated with newly discovered groups, and formulated new inventions that improved them in the long run. Due to the Age of Exploration, Portugal and Spain benefited politically because they unified newly conquered land and kept substantial control as well as power

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    includes parts of Iraq, Syria and Armenia and the Kurdish people are often the majority in cities in this region. 1A.2) A state is a political territory that has a sovereign government . The term “state” refers to a country and each country had a defined population and borders. There are over 193 states or countries around the world. Some examples of states are China, Canada, Denmark, France, India, Spain, Syria and Ukraine. 1A.3) A nation-state is a state in which over 90 percent of the population

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    Gaulish Language

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    attitudes of those people. The earliest known history of those living in the area of France, then known as Gaul, were populations of Celts who imposed their authority on the indigenous populations in the area. They spoke a variety of Celtic languages, which unfortunately none of which have survived to this day. The Gaulish language varied in many ways because it was not written down, and it varied depending on the region you were in due to the lack of unity among the Gauls. Interestingly enough, they

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    Both the north and south had dissimilar views on economics; the north developed industries in its region on a wide scale while the south relied on agricultural goods such as cotton, rice, sugar, and the most valuable of them all – tobacco. Even though Lincoln won the presidential election, the southern regions still rejected the sixteenth president due to his moral customs. The deep, southern regions also withdrew for the reason that Lincoln himself might put an end to their states’ rights on the

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