<span>native americans told balboa of a body of water west of the panama so balboa reached the Pacific Ocean and claimed it for spain. Then Magellen sailed across it.
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<span>end the slave trade
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while slave trade had been declared illegal in the European countries and in the USA following the civil war, in parts of Africa,especially along the East Africa coast, Arabs trader were adamant of ending slavery, and the sultan seyyid Said would hear none of it. Livingstone suggested that Christianity was the only way to deal with this menace. and on his first stop in east african coast, he helped secure a number of slaves who were settled at Rabai.
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as an agrarian republic in which states and localities held most of the power
He used them to develop the plot. He was a master at plot development. Bierce loved to develop the plot through a sequence of events even if it made the reader uncomfortable.