Answer - Race as a categorizing term referring to human beings was first used in the English language in the late 16th century. Until the 18th century it had a generalized meaning similar to other classifying terms such as type, sort, or kind. Occasional literature of Shakespeare’s time referred to a “race of saints” or “a race of bishops.” By the 18th century, race was widely used for sorting and ranking the peoples in the English colonies—Europeans who saw themselves as free people, Amerindians who had been conquered, and Africans who were being brought in as slave labour—and this usage continues today.
The peoples conquered and enslaved were physically different from western and northern Europeans, but such differences were not the sole cause for the construction of racial categories. The English had a long history of separating themselves from others and treating foreigners, such as the Irish, as alien “others.” By the 17th century their policies and practices in Ireland had led to an image of the Irish as “savages” who were incapable of being civilized. Proposals to conquer the Irish, take over their lands, and use them as forced labour failed largely because of Irish resistance. It was then that many Englishmen turned to the idea of colonizing the New World. Their attitudes toward the Irish set precedents for how they were to treat the New World Indians and, later, Africans.
The desire for trade with Asia encouraged exploration of the Americas because in order to do so they had to search for a trade route. While doing so they landed in the Americas which was like unclaimed land to them so they explored it in order to gain it as their territory. The more land you had control over the more powerful the country was.
Griots were a combination of advisors, historians, and entertainers charged with preserving rich oral traditions for future generations.
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<span>When playing games of chance like slot machines or roulette, people often say that a particular outcome is "due," implying that one outcome is more likely because it hasn't happened in a while. this is a fallacy because in these examples the outcome of each trial is: Independent
Games or chance are random in nature. That is, the outcomes are influenced not by the previous outcome, but by probabilistic statistics. In slot machines or roulette, the outcome of each trial is Independent, meaning that it isn't influenced by any previous trial and that if an outcome doesn't happen in a while, it will not increase the chances that it will happen in the next trial.
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