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<span><span><span>First of all, we should remember that for most of the "mid-1800s" (however one defines this) African Americans in the South were mostly enslaved rather than simply suffering discrimination. However, even those African Americans who were not enslaved were discriminated against.There are many examples of this discrimination. Free blacks in almost every state (even in the North) could not vote. In much of the South, it was illegal to educate any African American, even...</span></span></span>
Mostly they affected it through their imperialism. They would colonize and take over countries for resources, and with them they would bring their technologies and things that they needed. After they left these things stayed, things like telephone and telegram lines and similar things. Culturally, they would mostly disregard the local culture and impose their own which would often be accepted and kept by the locals, but often there was also warfare.
Europeans were originally motivated to explore the seas to discover previously unknown lands, especially after the contact with America, where europeans found all kind of valuable goods. The portuguese were the first to pursue maritime exploration, soon to be followed by the spaniards.
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Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat.
