Cotton was one the biggest and most important crops in the South of the United States. In 1794, a United States inventor named Eli Whitney produced and patented a machine called the Cotton Gin and by that time, it completely modernized the cotton industry.
This especial machine was able to speed up the production of cotton by a process, which incremented the speed in which the cotton seeds were removed from the cotton fiber. Previous to this machine the removal of the seeds has to be done by hand which was very time consuming.
even though the invention was very successful, Mr. Whitney´s success was not what he wanted, mainly because there were a lot of patent infringement problems that he has to faced, and ended up in disappointment for him.
The life of Mongol princess and warrior Khutulun reveals that although patriarchy existed among the mongols of the time, women were given a high status and respect. They also exercised a good amount of power and influence in the society.
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British soldiers were fighting because it was their job, while Americans were fighting for freedom. Another advantage the colonists had was the fact that American forces were fighting on their own ground. They knew the terrain, roads, mountain passes, and swamp lands of the colonies.
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Africans organized their societies around the family unit, and gold supply often dictated which society held the most power—until the start of the Atlantic slave trade.
The beginning of the Atlantic slave trade in the late 1400s disrupted African societal structure as Europeans infiltrated the West African coastline, drawing people from the center of the continent to be sold into slavery.
New sugar and tobacco plantations in the Americas and Caribbean heightened the demand for enslaved people, ultimately forcing a total of 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic and into slavery.
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