Akhenaton introduced the practice of monotheism or the worship of one god. Akhenaton called his god Aten. He also moved the capital to Amarma. Later Tutankhamen later restored the worship of Amun and returned the capital of Egypt back to Thebes. He also built a temple in Karnak dedicated to Amun.
This is taken from THE GLEANER, article AFRICA'S ROLE IN SLAVERY.
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<span>In the Arab world, which was the first to import large numbers of slaves from Africa, the slave traffic was cosmopolitan. Slaves of all types were sold in open bazaars. The Arabs played an important role as middlemen in the trans-atlantic slave trade, and research data suggest that between the 7th and the 19th centuries, they transported more than 14 million black slaves across the Sahara and the Red Sea, as many or more than were shipped to the Americas, depending on the estimates for the transatlantic slave trade.</span>
The inescapable fact that stuck in my craw was: My people had sold me ... . My own people had exterminated whole nations and torn families apart for a profit before the strangers got their chance at a cut. It was a sobering thought. It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed." And we might add, the universal nature of slavery.
African kings were willing to provide a steady flow of captives, who they said were criminals or prisoners of war doomed for execution. Many were not, but this did not prevent traders posing as philanthropists who were rescuing the Africans from death and offering them a better and more productive life.
When France and Britain outlawed slavery in their territories in the early 19th Century, African chiefs who had grown rich and powerful off the slave trade sent protest delegations to Paris and London. Britain abolished the slave trade and slavery itself against fierce opposition from West African and Arab traders.The slave trade<span>. </span>The African state that played a very active and profitable role<span> in the translantic slave was? The Kingdom on Dahomey.
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1. The correct answer here is the option D.
The war with the Japan has cost the United States much. Even though they were winning the loss of life was huge and the advancement was going poorly. The Japanese fought the US tooth and nail for the smallest part of territory. President Truman thought that the invasion of the main Japanese islands would lead to even greater loses and thus authorized the use of nuclear weapons.
2.The correct answer here is A.
The Great Depression hit the United States hard. Both the public and the banks were in much trouble. People feared for their money and they rushed to withdraw their moneys from the banks which they feared would close and as a result people would lose their money. This move was damaging for the economy as the more people withdrew their money the more damage was being caused. In order to restore the faith in the banking system, Roosevelt proclaimed a banking holiday and thus prevented further bankruptcy of the banks and restored peoples faith in them as people, after the holiday, deposited most of the money back.
3.The correct answer here is C.
After the World War II, the world was divided between two opposite philosophies and government systems, the democratic system and the communist system. At the eastern part of Europe and the world more and more countries were becoming communist societies under the influence of the Soviet Union. That is what Churchill called the Iron Curtain and the loss of freedom in those countries.
4. The correct answer here is C.
When you use borrowed money in order to obtain financial purchases you are buying on margin. With this you pay the margin with the money borrowed from either a bank or a broker. In other words this refers to the dawn payment or the initial payment to the broker for the thing you are buying.
5.The correct answer here is D.
The countries in the Eastern Europe were under the Iron Curtain, which i mentioned above, and their governments were not independent but were controlled indirectly by the Soviet Union. There were called the puppet government because the Soviet Union was pulling their strings.
6. The correct answer here is C.
In the 1950s there was a great automobile revolution. Many families and individuals were able to afford a car and thus they had greater freedom of movement. They no longer had to live in the cramped city centers and could own a house and a yard in the suburbs and still be able to get to work.
